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Parental Pals are passionate parents who believe in open minded education.
Their key elements: a global perspective, playful curiosity, confidence, respect,
good humoured common sense and partner families with a kindred spirit.

They see the benefits of cooperation. Here is where they meet.


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	Surprise Management

	an elementary part of contemporary hybrid education !


	... means the ability to deal well with all forms of surprise such as luck, chance, opportunity, an invitation or a visit, presents, challenges and anything potentially good ... but also misfortune, loss, accident, calamity, bad luck - ... in other words, with every day life! It gives the competence to handle new people, situations and challenges, to make the most of them and to decide wisely whether to welcome them or to turn them down; Surprise management also aims to provide the skill to feel at ease and behave with grace with people of all walks of life and in any environment, nation or culture.




		Surprise Management is a course held by life itself for people who wish to master it. Its teachers, tutors and mentors are active all over the world. ParentalPal.Org provides a high quality exchange with them to enable kids and youngsters to acquire these skills, under the shelter and protection of their families, guided and advised by global experts and experienced mentors.


	Surprise Management is a personal, individual and exciting discipline. It shapes the personality and exercises the brain. It is a learning process that never ends. Surprise management is sophisticated training for a value-added life !


	Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD): “ Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”


	The key ingredients of Hybrid Education and Surprise Management:


	Family: parents, grandparents, siblings, the village of childhood...

	Peers: friends, classmates, neighbourhood, folks who leave an impression ...

	School: teachers, subjects, curriculum, learning environment, content and inspiration ...


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	the fundamentals


	the power within


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		Passion: creativity, yearning for sense and reason, ideals and beliefs, ambitions to shape the world, ...

	Curiosity: learning ambitions, the joy of communication, learning languages and acquiring knowledge, ...

		Personality: aims and goals, style of living, strategy to life planning, building a personal life space, ...


		Experience: actively in touch with a multitude of challenges, cultures and ways of thinking ...

	Confidence: personal growth through a life-long process of trials, failures and successes ...

	Joy, plenty of it: the fulfillment and happiness won by exploiting your own potential and playing all your charms, powers and abilities for what they’re worth - for yourself and for others.


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	the strength


	Parental Pals are the teachers and mentors of each others children.

	They know about the responsibility of trust and the honour of being trusted. The ingredients above - the fundamentals, the power and the strength - are like your kitchen. You have food and spices, a stove and pots and pans: Parental Pals teach you how to cook!


	Please continue to the Case Studies !

... or spare a moment to consider, how things can go when both your luck and your grip on life’s surprises let you down: Tom Stone has a gallery of very touching photographs. American Poverty: "i photograph people who skirt the edges of things; people whose connection to the broader flow is murky or obscured. mistaken as more, less or different than they are; they aren’t really seen and don’t really belong. that’s everyone sometimes; but some more often. i try to establish a line for a moment. i hope to connect. and i see the most beautiful and the most heartbreaking things."


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