Make Sure Your Child Has a Handful of Pebbles
Play may be a child’s work, but adolescents
Audience: Parent
Success Is How We Live
… there is no road, the road is
All I Really Needed to Know I Learned At Summer Camp
Through ample outdoor, unplugged group play and adventure, traditional summer camps offer the ideal setting for kids to grow important social skills and character traits.
Why Healthy Sleep Habits Matter
Where is Sleep on Your Student’s Priority List?
Help Your Students Slow Down, Reach Higher
Most schools and education systems are not serving
Authoritative Parenting vs. Helicopter Parenting: What Parents Should Know
A recent article from the Opinion section of
Just Thinking…
I’ve been thinking about this little word “just”.
For students choosing college, it takes a village to avoid the ‘Prestige Trap’
It was a December morning in Northern California – warm yet grey, as if ambivalent about whether it belonged to fall or winter. Cara, a senior in high school, sat across from me at the small table in her living room.
Stressed Students need SPACE to Thrive
The 10-month sprint of academic and co-curricular activities that we call the school year can overwhelm even the most well-adjusted students. In fact, high achieving
Challenge Success: A Dawson Parent’s Perspective
A parent from one of our partner school shares what she learned at our Fall Conference.
Messages Matter
I believe that what we say and how we say it matters, and that we need to provide more stories of ways that students can succeed that aren’t within the conventional norm.
Unsolvable Love: The Final 30 Alternative Visions of Parenthood
This will be the concluding post in the “Unsolvable Love” trilogy, 30 more epigrams that endeavor to honor and respect the ever-changing, many-sided complexity of the parent-child relationship.