Category: High School
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Top 10 Books for Parent-Child Book Clubs with Tweens and Teens
Read Article: Top 10 Books for Parent-Child Book Clubs with Tweens and TeensAs the author of a book about mother-daughter book clubs, and as a parent who often read books with my daughter at home, I cannot speak highly enough about the transformative power of literature. My favorite part of sharing books with my daughter is having a discussion that begins with some aspect of the plot…
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Going Offline: 10 Fabulous Books to Read With Your Kids This Summer
Read Article: Going Offline: 10 Fabulous Books to Read With Your Kids This SummerIn today’s world of ubiquitous personal and mobile screens, family time is becoming harder and harder to come by, and is often framed or fractured by children’s (and parents’) prioritization of digital socializing over the in-person relationships right there inside the home. Family book clubs are educational and are a great way to encourage reading,…
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An Educational Consultant’s View on Admissions & Learning Disabilities
Read Article: An Educational Consultant’s View on Admissions & Learning DisabilitiesThis week, we interview Lori Day, an Educational Consultant in Newburyport, MA. Having worked in academia for her entire career, Lori is well-prepared to serve the needs of her clients. We chatted with her recently about her work with parents, students (with and without learning disabilities), and schools. Read more…
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Grownups: You Can Read YA, and Why Not Read It With Your Kids?
Read Article: Grownups: You Can Read YA, and Why Not Read It With Your Kids?Ever since Ruth Graham wrote “Against YA” for the Slate Book Review last month — the article that launched a thousand blog posts — I’ve been reading the scathing responses as they roll in one by one. The Barnes and Noble Book Blog calls it the best debate on the internet. Indeed. Read more…
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Eight Favorite Books Starring Interesting, Exciting, Daring, Adventurous Girls!
Read Article: Eight Favorite Books Starring Interesting, Exciting, Daring, Adventurous Girls!Google is full of girl-empowering book lists. Favorite female protagonists from the classics, like Pippi Longstocking, to more recent heroines, like Katniss Everdeen, abound on these lists, but I wanted to make my own after reading so many children and YA books to curate for recommendations to mother-daughter book clubs. Here are eight of my…
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Encouraging the Artist in Every Child
Read Article: Encouraging the Artist in Every ChildPicasso once said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” A quick glance around an African-American friend’s home recently showed me that he and many of his relatives have, delightfully, not grown up. At least, not in the way that concerned Picasso. Read more…
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How Parents Can Disengage from the Homework Wars
Read Article: How Parents Can Disengage from the Homework WarsWelcome to the new school year! In millions of households across the country, there is no greater drama than the nightly struggle to get kids to do their homework. How many parents would love to have a magic wand that could abolish the homework wars forever? There actually is such a wand, figuratively speaking, yet…
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Celebrating Teachers in a National Climate of Teacher Bashing
Read Article: Celebrating Teachers in a National Climate of Teacher BashingIf not for all of the towering displays at Target and Staples, I would refrain from raising the topic of back-to-school, if only to hold onto summer for just a bit longer. But the start of school is less than a month away in many parts of the country, it’s been very hot lately, and…
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A DAY IN THE CLASSROOM: The student-teacher connection
Read Article: A DAY IN THE CLASSROOM: The student-teacher connectionIn New York Times columnist David Brooks’ recent piece in The New Yorker, “Social Animal: How the New Science of Human Nature Can Help Make Sense of a Life,” there is a small subsection I found of particular interest. Read more…