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Which Risk?
Risk, by its very definition, is the embracing of uncertainty, potential harm, or even danger. By choosing risk, we walk into the unknown, rich with promise that could go either direction. We are...
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Declaring Your Why
I see it often this time of year. In the craziness of college applications (and spending too much time online reading the unsubstantiated views of others), perspectives can become blurred and we can...
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Should You Keep It for Love?
I get the question often. Should parents encourage their kids to pursue a career in an activity they love such as music, dance, theater, or art? There are no easy answers and certainly different...
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Recognizing the Spin
Any student learning new material, particularly something extremely challenging, can suddenly find their mind in a spin and further progress stops. Sometimes the mind turns to mush or you find yourself...
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Finding a Test Site
Homeschoolers can face unique challenges when it comes to finding a place to sit for standardized tests such as the ACT, PSAT, or SAT. Even more difficult can be finding a site for specialized tests...
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An Appointment with Joy
I recently asked a young professional what he wished he would have done differently in college. Even though it has been a number of years since he graduated from one of the most selective and highest...
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Which Path?
So much of life boils down to choices as Poet Robert Frost so eloquently showed us in “The Road Not Taken.” When two roads diverge into a yellow wood, the one we pick will shape us and usually preclude...
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First Things First
For most families, it can be a difficult thing to narrow the list of colleges to apply to. But long before that decision is made, it is imperative to spend a great deal of time thinking about:...
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An Engagement Mindset
With the breaking scandal of parents paying large sums of money to secure illegal entrance for their children to top colleges, this last month has put a black eye on the whole college admissions...
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How Much is Enough?
As a college consultant I get many questions that contain the word “enough.” • Do we have enough volunteer service hours? • Do we have enough English classes? • Do we have enough AP courses? • Do we...
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Fail Harder!
In today’s culture of snowplow parenting where all obstacles are pushed out of the way of kids, I would like to talk about a radically different concept that is so old it is new. In fact, my paradigm...
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Tinkerbell Doesn’t Live Here
I have to confess a love of well-told stories that centers on the kind works of fairies, tomptens, and other small helpers who take care of a household when the humans are sleeping. But, no matter how...
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The Basic Foundations of High School
I have long advocated keeping as many doors open as possible as our child progresses through high school. If we don’t keep a clear picture of the end result of these four years, we can have omissions...
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Career Questions and College Applications
The summer after the junior year in high school may be the first time that students have wrestled with which major they will declare on those looming college applications. While that choice will most...
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When Tests Go Haywire
Very rarely are there issues when our homeschool students are guests of a school system when taking standardized tests. If a school agrees to host your child, normally things proceed smoothly....
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Rules for the Road
One of the joys of parenting was teaching my kids how to navigate life. There are unspoken rules, simple courtesies, and ways to make an impact. Each day we are given a set number of hours to be...
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It’s Time!
The Junior year is filled with much to be done from rigorous academic classes, to extracurricular achievements, to testing, to looking at colleges. It is certainly a marathon, not a 100-yard dash....
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Is Your Student a Senior?
It is August, the beginning of a new senior year, the culmination of everyone’s hard work and the launching point for the future. It can also be a time of major anxiety for parents and students alike....
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The College Application Essay
There is nothing easy about the personal statement that seniors are currently writing for the college application process. Not only is it uncomfortable for students to talk about themselves, but the...
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When Crisis Interrupts
The Coronavirus has turned the world sideways and all of us are now forced to operate in unfamiliar territory. Long anticipated events will not happen or will be put on hold. Important college...
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