Mid-life Crisis Begins in Kindergarten

A story of lost brilliance: how we learn the habit of settling for less

Recent studies reveal that 95% of kindergartners feel good about themselves. The same study reveals that fewer than 2% of seniors in high school feel good about themselves.
Pedro Garcia, Superintendent of Corona-Norco Unified School District.


Given the thousands of teachers who mean well by children, there can be only one explanation for the damage those schools do to students—

The system is broken.

This book is for all who...

wonder where their sparklewent

believe that all their roads are blocked

find themselves wishing, hoping anddreaming rather than taking action

wish they'd taken the road less traveled

wish they'd taken a more well worn path

wish their lives were better spent

come up short no matter which measuring stick they use

think they missed the boat

From our earliest days in school we receive messages that undermine our sense of self-stisfaction and well-being.

Various expectations keep us going from year to year, but there comes a time — after we have gone to college or not, married or not, gotten the we wanted or not, bought a house or not, had kids or not, taken the vacation(s) of our dreams or not, bought a NEW car or not, gotten the kids graduated from high school or not — when something gives. We call it a mid-life crisis. And, it's no wonder many of us experience one sooner or later.

Although some may think that all we really need to know we learned in kindergarten, we actually need to forget a lot of what we learned in kindergarten and get on with becoming the people we weren't allowed to be — ourselves.

This is a true story of how, when basic human needs are not met, we learn to settle for less.

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