Remember that time your child was competing for something? She’d worked hard and felt 100% confident that her time, diligence, and determination would pay off. But something went wrong. She missed, she didn’t get chosen, she froze, she panicked, she tripped, she...

I coach a couple who questioned if perhaps, they were expecting too much from their 7th grade son. In the summer following 5th grade their son wanted a cell phone. With promises and hope they agreed that he would earn a phone when he mastered keeping his grades above...

The school’s phone number popped up on my caller ID on that Tuesday, the third week of school. What I didn’t suspect was that it would be the school counselor telling me my daughter had just had an anxiety attack. She explained that Kelsey, my sixth-grader, had...

Gratitude from parents this week: Once school starts I won't miss these texts: Ryan stole my iPad, Emma ate my leftover pizza, Kyle won't tell me the Wi-Fi password. Stephanie, my carpool partner, is taking the morning run. She alreadygave my sleepy middle schoolers...

School's starting, and the contrast between summer's casualness and school’s structure is palpable. Your child and you are not strangers to this overnight dichotomy. This makes now prime time for chatting about how the school year will play out. Consider setting...