A College Education, the Key to a Happy Life or Not?
A realistic look at the benefit of attending a private 4-year college education versus the amount of money it will cost.
A realistic look at the benefit of attending a private 4-year college education versus the amount of money it will cost.
Should I put my son is a private preschool even though it will be quite expensive for our family?
I’ve been thinking about the practice of redshirting: postponing your child’s entrance into kindergarten to give him or her an academic or social edge. I’m not considering it for my son, mind you: we were spared that decision, because Henry just missed the cut-off date…
I’m worried something isn’t quite “right” with my daughter, but her school keeps finding excuses for not evaluating our concerns. Where do I turn for help?
Having an invisible disability is hard; having an invisible disability as a high school student and being scoffed at by a teacher is worse. Don’t be that teacher.
What if the tables were turned and you were going to get graded on your child’s report card on your parenting? How do you think you would do?
The knife-edge between encouraging my teens to self-advocate and stepping in while I still can is a precarious one, especially in a world that’s unfair.
Some advice for a mother whose young preschooler is having a really hard time at drop-off and with separation anxiety through out the day.
A mom is trying to decide whether she should hold her son back a year in preschool before sending him to kindergarten since she’s concerned he won’t be ready for the educational expectations.
Today’s kids are being pushed to pick out their career paths way too young, I think, and I’d rather we teach them to keep an open mind and adventuresome spirit.
With my teens sharing a class for the first time, the inevitable comparisons are making me wonder how I can coax the best out of each of them.
Ah, homework. It can be the bane of your existence. It may be your nightly battle. Here we tackle finding the balance between helping your children accomplish their responsibilities and fostering independence.
The New York Times magazine this week covered the single-sex public education movement. Of course single-sex education is nothing new—just ask parochial and private school students. But as stories crop up of how our school system fails boys and girls, the idea of segregating students…
I know very little about wine pairings, but I do know what you should bake for your next meeting at school.
I think my second grader has inattentive ADD/ADHD. What should I do to get him the help he needs at school?
I never thought I’d homeschool my kid, but somehow this is where we ended up. Spoiler: We both kind of love it.
A California appellate judge ruled that according to state law, homeschooling is illegal. Californian homeschoolers everywhere are surprised to hear that they’ve been flouting the law since the 1950s, but that, at least according to Judge H. Walter Croskey, is the case. Needless to say,…
If you’re looking to find the balance between helping too much and teaching them to be successful on their own, this list of homework rules is for you.
What about redshirting from the other side of the equation, when these boys are getting ready to graduate and move on to college. Six, eight, ten years later are the parents still happy with their decision?
To say the high school goal is to graduate is much like saying one’s career goal is to be successful; both are temporal.