Life is unpredictable; even when you are a teen and the world should have a rosy glow. One day everything is progressing and building as expected and, in the next breath, existence is a virtual free fall. There are many things that can interrupt the anticipated progression through the high school years. Natural Disasters – [read more] …
Family Life
Summer Plans and Pitfalls
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] …
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] …