Rick Stephens
Rick Stephens is a co-founder of Raising Families, a husband, father, and grandfather. With 33 years of experience as a top-level executive of The Boeing Company and having raised four children of his own, he is able to support parents and grandparents by incorporating his knowledge of business, leadership, and complex systems into the family setting. It is this unique combination of leadership and family life that allows Raising Families to help parents become more joyful and confident, as well as more proactive, intentional family leaders.
Rick currently resides in Alpine, Texas with wife and fellow Raising Families co-founder Elane V. Scott.
Posts by Rick Stephens
7 Important Social Skills for Kids to Learn
As the school year gets underway—your children are reengaging with friends and classmates or are just starting in their first year of school—we thought it might be helpful to highlight seven key social skills for kids and provide recommendations on how you can teach and/or strengthen those skills within your child. The Importance of Social Skills for KidsLearning social skills is an important element of a child’s development that can have an enormous impact on their well-being, their future, and the key relationships they develop as children, young adults, teens, and eventually adults out on their
Raise Confident, Independent Children With This Skill
To raise confident, independent children, we need to take a step back and let them struggle sometimes. Click here to learn how to make the process easier.
2 Healthy Ways to Encourage Independence in Children
We all want our children to grow up to be caring, capable, and independent adults who make sound decisions about their relationships, careers, and lives in general. When we encourage independence in children, we’ll be enabling them to become independent adults, which is one of the most important roles we have as parents. 1. Teach, coach, and mentor to encourage independence in children.In order for our children to become independent, as parents, we have to grow from being their first teacher to becoming a guiding coach and then becoming their mentor. One of our recent blogs on helping kids
4 Simple Tips to Help Your Kids Learn to Earn
Your child is born wanting things. At first, it’s simply a warm cuddle and snuggle, nourishment, a clean diaper, and sleep. In short, like all of us, they want to feel loved and cared for. It’s easy to provide these things when they’re young. You don’t worry about spoiling them. The things they want are needs. But what happens when your child starts asking for wants? That’s when you help them learn to earn. Tips to Help Kids Learn to EarnHow we as parents engage with our children from their early years as they reflect their
6 Smart Tips to Teach Kids about Honesty
As parents, we all want our kids to know what's fair and demonstrate the true meaning of honesty and integrity. But how do we teach kids about honesty in a way that they’ll embody the integrity we want them to have? We have six tips to help you do just that. Kids Know Right from Wrong from an Early AgeMost parents are surprised to learn that research shows their children know the difference between right and wrong before they reach the age of two. Do they have it all figured out by then? Certainly not. Can
