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The Stuff Revolutions Are Made Of

Christy Nichols
8 min readMay 27, 2020
Photo Credit: Annie Spratt (Unsplashed)

I want to share with you something funny that made me laugh out loud. Truly. And then it also made me think. (Kind of a “hahaha — Hey, wait.” moment).

In the last couple of months, I hit pause on my overseas Retreats and pivoted to increase teaching my personal growth programs online.

This pivot expanded to offering my workshops for teenagers now stuck at home and not attending school.

I teach privately but also chose to host some of my own courses through an organization connecting teachers with students online. This organization is open to receiving requests for new topics, where students and parents can offer up ideas for the kinds of things they want to learn.

Take a look at this list of classes below that was recently submitted.

These requests are from parents teaching their kids at home. The parents are either humoring their kids or honestly searching for opportunities to learn about these topics.

They are stretching the limits of what is possible, now that education has become less concrete and more open water.

The vast range of requests reveals both entertaining and thought-provoking non-traditional topics our kids want to learn about (and the age of…

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Christy Nichols
Christy Nichols

Written by Christy Nichols

Educator, business owner, writer, do-gooder (mostly), trouble-maker (sometimes). Life Coach, Book Coach, Nicaragua Retreats hosted by www.venture-within.com

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