Spring is not yet here, but I am answering parent questions daily about how to structure their child’s summer. Usually, the temptation is to fill it too full, to sacrifice quality for quantity. If we are not careful, we can start to view summer as a time to build resumes with flashy credentials rather than [read more] …
Family Life
Creating an Excitement for Learning
The world is such a fascinating place, filled with interesting people, exciting things to learn about, and endless possibility for exploration. Why is it then that so many kids are jaded and have not the slightest curiosity about how life works? With more data available quicker today than ever before, it appears our young might [read more] …
Optimizing Opportunity
Many modern parents feel they don’t have too much to teach their kids. I, for one, couldn’t help mine with calculus or programming. In fact, the world of technology was changing so fast that they were often teaching me. It is enough to cause many parents to step back and rely on “experts” to do [read more] …
Wrestling with Context
There is little in life that can be properly understood without context. Whether our first grader is learning to figure out the meaning of words based on what else is in the paragraph or our senior is grappling with a Shakespearian passage, they must look at what else is given to make sense of the [read more] …
New Year’s Relinquishment
It happens every year about this time. People start talking about resolutions for the New Year. They list the things they need to add to their life: more exercise, a new diet, exciting activities, daily journaling, starting the house addition, etc. Many look at life and feel it is not enough. For some odd reason, [read more] …