A college application is a series of promises. At the most basic level, it’s a promise that the information you’ve shared is accurate and complete. But you’re also promising to keep being the person you’ve presented. Here are four promises you’re making within your application, along with (where appropriate) some recommendations about actions to take if it […]
Read More >Got questions about overparenting?
If you’ve got questions for—or just want to learn from the wisdom of—Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, she’ll be featured on a live Q & A webinar on Tuesday, February 19, at 8:30 p.m. EST. All the details are […]
Read More >Home/school balance
Many professionals struggle with their work/life balance. I’ve never met an adult who said, “I wish that my boss and my job-related stress and my performance at work would play a bigger role in my life at home.” And yet many kids today are struggling with home/school balance. Parents, what if your home became the […]
Read More >What’s their challenge around change?
To make improvements in any organization means to change it. To move (figuratively or literally) from one place to a different place. But when the potential for change hits people, they often get defensive and shut it down. The familiar is a comfortable place to be. And the unknown is easier to avoid if we […]
Read More >Self-explanations are the best explanations
I’ve written often that the surest way to learn any new material is to teach it back to an imaginary audience. The act of explaining something clearly and cogently activates a different part of your brain and is a lot more effective than passively reviewing or memorizing. Here’s more evidence–a study showing that self-explanation turns […]
Read More >Authoritative is not helicoptering
The title of Pamela Druckerman’s recent New York Times piece, “The Bad News About Helicopter Parenting: It Works,” will delight those parents who are running their children’s lives. But a closer read–and the referenced research–reveals that she’s not really talking about helicopter parenting. From the article: The most effective parents, according to the authors, are […]
Read More >Self zero-sums
The zero-sum approach dictates that for one side to win, the other must lose. There’s no win-win, no version of an agreement where both sides get some of what they want and still feel whole at the end. It’s all or nothing, one winner, one loser. If you sit down at the lunch table ahead […]
Read More >The effort to save
While financial aid officers use formulas to determine a family’s financial need, they also retain a lot of latitude to make decisions that might go against their calculations. And one potentially important and often overlooked way to influence that decision is the degree to which a family has made an honest effort to save, regardless […]
Read More >Do them anyway
Students and their parents often lament the qualities, talents, and contributions that colleges won’t see during the application process. If only the college could see how nice you are to your younger siblings, the way people respond to you at the counter of your part-time job, the relationships you build or focus you maintain or […]
Read More >What are your ideas worth?
If you’re in a club, organization, or company, you’ve probably come across people who have lots of ideas. They’ve always got a suggestion about what the group should change, initiate, or roll out. And they often express those ideas with some version of, “We should…” “We should do a different fundraiser this year—nobody likes selling […]
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