How to Raise (and Support) a Real Life Superhero | Yarrow Kraner
How to Raise (and Support) a Real Life Superhero | Yarrow Kraner
As the world changes faster each day, how can we raise and support superheroes ready for the task? Said another way, what if a child’s challenging traits isn't a problem to fix but a superpower waiting to emerge?
As the world changes faster each day, how can we raise and support superheroes ready for the task? Said another way, what if a child’s challenging traits isn't a problem to fix but a superpower waiting to emerge?
In 1999, Yarrow Kraner launched one of the world's earliest social networks built on a radical belief: everyone has unique gifts that can change the world—especially in children—galvanizing 1.5 million youth into action. In 2004 In 2004, he founded HATCH, connecting and cross-pollinating diverse global influencers and NextGen youth leaders to accelerate collaborations and solutions for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. By bringing together today's real-life superheroes—from astronauts to composers, inventors to software engineers—HATCH has led to thousands of collaborations, companies formed, and systems change at the policy level. The results have impacted the lives of 100 million people.
Yarrow shares how he sees human potential and how we can all recognize the visionary traits in children before the world carves away their gifts. As well as ways we can create the conditions where superpowers such as empathy and creativity can flourish.
Why This Matters:
→ Your child’s misunderstood traits might be their greatest strength. What looks like defiance, distraction, or impracticality could be visionary thinking in disguise—but only if we learn to recognize and nurture it.
→ We're accidentally crushing curiosity. Preschoolers ask over 100 questions a day; by middle school, that curiosity has nearly vanished. This dramatic drop is what happens when wonder meets a world that doesn't know how to hold it.
→ Society desperately needs more visionaries—but many never bloom. The environments we can create (or not) can be the difference between those superpowers emerging or being shut down forever.
