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
2 Liberating Ways to Deal with Conflict
Do you deal with conflict more than you’d like (especially with family) because of anger? Click here to learn how to turn that anger into an opportunity.
5 Windows of Opportunity: Make Childhood Extraordinary
What you do now, no matter the age of your kids, can have a huge impact on their future. Click here to find out how to make the most of it.
10 Great Questions to Ask Your Dad on Father’s Day
With Father's Day coming up, I, like so many others, have been thinking about my dad who's no longer with us and all the questions I'd like to ask my dad if I was still able to. Like most kids of my baby boomer generation, I really didn't "know" the man I called Dad. I knew much of his story about what he had done in life, and there was no doubt about the values he had. But I didn't comprehend how his life's experiences had shaped him. At nearly 95 years old, my mother is
Family Meetings: How to Get Started Today
Family Meetings Have the Power to Unite One family ritual has the power to unite your family and help it become a successful family team based on meaningful lifelong connections—the family meeting. Many people shy away (run away?) from the idea of family meetings because they sound too formal. Some people had family meetings as kids only when someone was in trouble. As a result, having them as adults seems like self-induced punishment. If neither of those reasons applies to you, you might be one of those people who hate meetings in general because all you can do
Decision-Making Made Easy for Exhausted Parents
Wouldn't it be nice if the Magic 8 Ball actually gave us reliable answers? Instead of "outlook not so good" or "it is decidedly so," our questions would reveal things like "based on the current data and your previous experience with this situation, the answer is no. Run away from this situation and don't look back." Decision-making would be so much easier wouldn't it? Sadly, that's not the case. So the truth remains that one of the most challenging issues for all parents, all people really, is when we have a problem and we just can't
