Miscellaneous

We should have turned the tech over to the grandkids, right?   That’s what Cal and I do when the too-smart TV won’t work or our phones go rogue…   But seriously we have a great tech team, and even so… yeah, we had a big glitch on the website stranding those of you who…

If we’ve learned anything over all the years we’ve worked with parents and families, it’s that we don’t make progress by just looking at what’s wrong, we’ve got to focus on what’s great as well and work from our strengths.   Have you ever heard the old story about the Animal School, first written by…

One of the first things we plan to do in Conquering Homework is help you get really clear on your personalized path to success. A key first step to helping your child change the way they do homework is understanding their unique homework style.   Research shows that most students who struggle with homework fall…

  We all know middle school can be pretty tough. In fact, a whopping 99% of all Americans rank 7th grade as absolutely the worst year of their childhood. But, remember that idea we told you about yesterday? Think how a proven success path and a supportive community of fellow parents could help you help…

Who could resist such a happy smile?    Certainly not Cal’s teachers.    But in reality, by middle school that cute little Cal was in serious trouble. He had more and more difficulty making sense of what his teachers were presenting in class, let alone applying it and figuring out how to do his homework. …

Our daughter Ally texted, “Hey, I found this awesome new place to paddleboard, let’s go next Friday.”   I was thrilled with the invitation and looking forward to Friday. Ally introduced me to this wonderful sport earlier this summer. She was new to the sport herself, so she gave her daughter, Alicia, and me a…

In the fall of 1967, I was living in Bergamo, Italy, a small city in the foothills of the Alps, working as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I was living with three other missionaries, and this day was the American Thanksgiving. We were missing our families and thinking about…