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March 25, 2024 For latchkey kids like me growing up in the 1980s, teenage angst was a collective character trait. Popular songs like “Don’t You (Forget about Me)” by Simple
February 26, 2024 I recently had the privilege of speaking with award-winning journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace about her new book, “Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can
January 29, 2024 The central question keeping me up at night as an educator is this: How can we maximize every student’s potential? This question emphatically isn’t about making sure
December 27, 2023 “We expect that middle school will be an awful time,” acclaimed author Judith Warner reflected, during our phone conversation about her book And Then They Stopped Talking
November 27, 2023 Do you wish you had fewer conflicts with your children involving screen time, homework, and chores? Would you like to eliminate the sense that you’re nagging by
October 24, 2023 Newsflash: Getting into college shouldn’t be any child’s central goal. Or so says Ana Homayoun in her new book, Erasing the Finish Line. I emphatically agree with
September 28, 2023 The U.S. surgeon general’s warning last May about the heightened dangers social media poses to young people’s mental health has understandably reignited many parents’ fears about their
June 28, 2023 In Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, 11-year-old Margaret learns a chant and exercise from her friend Nancy, the queen bee of 6th grade,
May 30, 2023 Educators have had growing and understandable concerns about anxiety, an emotion that gained significant attention during the Covid-19 pandemic. But in delivering a keynote address at this
April 27, 2023 In later years some further earsWere found in other forms.The more we know just goes to showThere are no real norms. –Portion of a poem by zoologist