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Getting Clear About Your Mission as a Parent
As the holidays approach and families gather, it’s the perfect time to pause and reflect on our roles as parents in our children’s lives. It’s a time for us to be asking, answering, and acting upon some foundational questions. In last month’s post we engaged in reflection. This month we move into action! Here are [...]
Choosing a Summer Program: Invest Wisely
Parents who understand and appreciate the value of summer camps and outdoor adventure, academic enrichment, community service and other kinds of summer programs often are taken aback by the cost, even if they have the financial wherewithal to afford it. Parents should ask “why so expensive?” At the same time, keep in mind the old [...]
Applied Early: Karma Says Have Your Child Get Other Apps Ready Now
I’m so proud of your child for applying early action, decision, or notification to a college. In this brutally horrible waiting period before they hear their fate, please have them prepare other applications. Several public, rolling, and scholarship applications are due before they will find out, and they must submit them. Other applications should also [...]
Adolescent Depression: More Than Just Teenage Angst
Adolescence is a tricky stage of life. It is a transitional stage, both physically and mentally, as well as a stage of rapid cognitive and psychological development. There’s the pressure to do well and succeed in academics, to form and keep up relationships, and to balance these with family interactions. It’s also at this stage [...]
Stressed Out? Take a Deep Breathe.
It’s that time of year when stress levels rise. More homework, SATs, college apps, finals and… less daylight. It seems harder to squeeze everything in. But there is something that can help. And its with you all the time. Your breath. It may sound weird, but the simple act of breathing is an easy way [...]
After an Early Decision I Disappointment, What to Do
Here you are in the throes of the very intense admissions process with your child. After all the searching, your child did find a favorite school, applied Early Decision I, and declared love and devotion—and didn’t hear she or he was loved back quite so much. Now what? In theory, you and your child have [...]