We’re Working On It
As parents, there is so much on our plates these days. We're hands-on parenting 24-7. We're working from home. We're helping our kiddos with distance [...]
Why it’s Important to Worry About Yourself
With today’s announcement making the temporary closure of schools in Minnesota permanent for the remainder of the school year, you’re all (understandably) facing some additional [...]
Setting Aside Our Experiences to Help our Kids
Cara Thorpe, founder and CEO of Yellow Parachute Learning Partners, is here again with answers about personalized learning. Learn about setting aside our own experiences [...]
Personalized Learning in Real Life
Cara Thorpe, founder and CEO of Yellow Parachute Learning Partners, is here with answers about personalized learning – an angst-filled topic for teachers and parents [...]
Growing Growth Mindset is Fussy Work
What do kids and cacti have in common? Besides both seriously soft and perfectly prickly sides? I’ll explain, borrowing from an early YP blog post: [...]
Surviving? Our kids ought to be thriving in school
Do you argue about the same school-related problems every evening? See tears or anger that you don’t understand? Feel like you have to ride your [...]
How to have faith in the first few steps
I remember when my kids took their first steps. They first learned to stand on two feet, then, slowly, how to put one unsteady foot [...]
How to manage expectations about summer learning
To my fellow parents, I’m about to save you from your own expectations about summer learning. At this point in May, summer feels like that [...]
Why we procrastinate, and how we can change
I’ve been thinking a bit about procrastination. It’s finally spring in Minnesota, and it seems that along with 60-degree weather and sun, we’ve tend to [...]
What Gets In The Way: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Click. How many times a day do you feel the lenses of other people trained on you? Do you imagine what they notice—the coffee stain, [...]
