Useful for people of all ages, and generally sound and rad! Hat-tip to Madeline Holler of StrollerDerby!
We’ve boiled down a quarter of a million teachable moments into these 7 life lessons:
1. History is happening RIGHT NOW
It’s a fact that should be obvious in this day of Tweeted births and parent blogs that mark every first poop/first word/first day of school and beyond. But life’s daily unfolding isn’t limited to individuals. The leaked cables give us immediate reactions to specific meetings and behind-the-scenes accounts of what other world leaders expect of the U.S. Historical events don’t come out of nowhere; they are the result of a slow build-up of events and reactions to those events — all while life was simply … happening.
2. Even grown-ups make mistakes
We’ll leave it to the experts to decide whether it was a good idea to make the classified documents public in the first place. But, without a doubt, there are grown men and women rocking themselves in a corner over the revelations and wishing they could have a do-over. It happens to everyone; it’ll happen to you (hopefully, with far less at stake).
