I’ve spent nearly ten rewarding years as an ACT Test Prep Coach, preparing incredible young people for over 100 ACT and SAT tests. In addition to gifting me with great joys and challenges, this work has revealed valuable insight into [...]
Come New Years, the summer, the weekend, we make our lists—we will use the fresh start, the extra time, the good weather to exercise more, eat better, make more time for friends, pursue that old passion, start that new business...We [...]
More than a political-patriotic display of unity or might, the Olympics, for me, are incredibly moving. Watch an Olympic athlete in the middle of a performance; the sheer beauty of their movement, the serenity in their focus, is astounding. These [...]
This fall, Shauna Niequist’s, Present Over Perfect inspired me to clean out my closet, which in turn inspired me to clean out my life. This seemed like an exciting and manageable task for about ten seconds, before I collapsed into [...]
Keeping a neat home is tough, and even tougher when kids are involved. It isn’t only the toys and sporting equipment that make organizing hard; it’s the emotional pull of the objects we associate with our kids. A crayon-scrawled piece [...]
Cultivating good habits is hard. You need to decide what habits are “good” in the first place, make a plan for acting on them, and manage the guilt you have when you (inevitably) fall short of your aspirations. The trick [...]
n 2018, we’re launching a new learning-to-learn curriculum, based on the latest research from educational and clinical psychologists and on how we learn best, as well as over eighteen years of experience creating personalized learning solutions for kids. This 3-month [...]
Home fragrance has come a long way from the synthetic aerosols and potpourri of yore. More than creating ambiance, a growing body of clinical evidence shows that aromatherapy—the use of plant essential oils for therapeutic purposes—has remarkable healing properties. So [...]
Much as I would love to trade love and good intentions alone this holiday season, the Santa-Industrial-Complex is far bigger than I. And while you don’t have to give things to prove your affection, there’s also nothing wrong with mindfully-chosen [...]
It’s not easy to recognize learning disabilities in our kids. To the untrained eye, disorders like ADD or ADHD might look like laziness or lack of self-control—traits that many of us were (wrongly) brought up to believe are problems of [...]
