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May 6, 2015
The Opposite of Spoiled: Review and Q&A With Author Ron Lieber
When I first heard of Ron Lieber’s Book, The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money, it was with a sense of misgiving. Fighting against the spoiling effects of upper middle class life has been something that has occupied my thinking for years and I was fairly certain many of the answers had arrived in his book, yet for me it would be too late.
The Opposite of Spoiled Review I was both right and wrong. Lieber’s book does answer so many of the issue...
April 30, 2015
The Her Campus Guide to College Life Review and Q&A
A year ago, I felt creeping anxiety knowing that I had precious time remaining with my high school senior daughter. In a few short months my husband and I would load up the car, help her make up her awkwardly high twin bed, kiss her goodbye, and watch as she walked back into the dorm to officially begin freshman year. I had spent 18 years o...
April 27, 2015
Prom Survival Guide
The excitement. The angst. The drama. The preparation. The parental stress levels.
Yes, I’m describing a high school rite of passage — but, no, it’s not the college admissions process, the driver’s test, or the graduation ceremony.
I’m talking about prom.
Of the many milestones in high school, prom is perhaps the most fraught. It’s fraught for the kids, who want to find a date, look good and have fun. It...
April 25, 2015
Getting Ready for College: Interview on Fios 1 News
High school seniors heading off to college have until May 1 to make final decisions about which school to choose for fall enrollment. Lisa was invited by anchor Christa Lauri, anchor of Fios 1 News (Verizon Communications)to discuss how kids are now getting ready for college and what parents can do to help them. Here is their interview, part of the feature, “Raising Our Kids.”
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April 23, 2015
How to Finish College in 4 Years: What Parents Need to Know
Imagine sitting in the audience at your daughter’s high school graduation, your heartbeat accelerating as the alphabetical roll call draws ever closer to your family’s last name. To her right and left you see her classmates, beaming with joyous self-confidence. Now, fast forward a few months to the fall semester of freshman year. Sadly, many of these graduating high school seniors will begin to stumble and wonder how to finish college during four years. Instead, some will take one or two extr...
April 19, 2015
Dorm Room Shopping: 50 Questions to Answer First
Stop. Slide that credit card back in your wallet and set down that dorm room shopping laundry list. Yes, you are facing the mother of all back-to-school shops. And, yes it seems like your freshman needs a million insanely expensive things. But before you wander through the endless (and, we promise you, they are endless) aisles of plastic underbed storage containers, laundry baskets and XL sheets, take a look at these 50 questions. Then, fix a snack for your off-to-college child, sit down and...
April 15, 2015
5 Ways to Smooth the Transition from Senior Year to College
Guest blogger, Annie Berning, is a college freshman who looks back on her senior year in high school, offering these five suggestions for those who will be off to college in the fall:
I’m currently trying to accept the fact that final exams are looming and am amazed by how fast my freshman year of college has gone by. Honestly, I’m still in shock at how quickly the years of high school went. High school and living at home were so comfortable and I was nervous to leave it all for someplace tot...
April 12, 2015
Moving Kids Out of the College Dorm, for the Summer or Forever
Here is the best-kept secret about the college school year. It is about 15 minutes long. No sooner do kids return to college from spring breakthan they are ready to move back home for the summer.
Moving into the college dorm or apartment was fun. The sheets and towels were new, the mattress topper was tightly packaged in its original box, and your college student was full of enthusiasm.
This move back home has a distinctly different flavor. Now the dorm room is filthy with a layer of dust bu...
April 10, 2015
The Perils of Passion
“We have come to believe that only those who have passion find fulfillment and success professionally. It’s as if passion is life’s magic pixie dust.”
In her essay in The New York Times Motherlode , “Our Push for ‘Passion’ and Why it Harms Our Kids, Lisa writes about the insidious nature of our children’s and teenager’s passion-pursuit, especially in the buildup to college admissions. The follow is an excerpt:
Standing on the sidelines of...
April 6, 2015
“The Girl’s Guide” A Review and Q&A with Melissa Kirsch
I am a mom of boys. What I know about raising girls could fit neatly on the head of a pin. But here is one of the things that would be atop that pinhead: if I were sending a daughter out into the world I would make sure she was tightly gripping a copy of Melissa Kirsch’s The Girl’s Guide: Getting the hang of your whole complicated, unpredictable, impossibly amazing life.In a single volume Kirsch covers the waterfront of a young woman’s life. She calls on experts and her own voluminous researc...
