Learning & School
121: How To Support Your Perfectionist Child
Parents often reach out to me to ask how they can support their perfectionist children, who can’t seem to cope with failure. I’ve been on the lookout for someone to talk with us for a while, but just as with our episode on anxiety, it took quite some searching to find an expert who doesn’t…
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120: How to Raise a Child Who Uses Their Uniqueness to Create Happiness (RE-RELEASE)
I’ve heard from listeners that what they call “The Dark Horse Episode,” the interview with Dr. Todd Rose, that this is one of their favorite conversations on the podcast, and for this reason I’m doing something I’ve never done before: reissuing that episode. Dr. Rose and I discussed ways to personalize children’s learning to help…
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117: Socialization and Pandemic Pods
One of the questions I see asked most often in parenting forums these days is some variation on: “I’m worried about my child’s socialization now that it looks like daycares, preschools and schools have been closed for several months and will likely remain closed for several more months. Can someone please tell me if I…
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SYPM 005: Getting Confident About the Decision to Homeschool
Click here to learn more about The Confident Homeschooler course! School districts are starting to make plans to reopen – some with sneeze guards between desks; some on reduced schedules to accommodate the amount of space needed for social distancing, while some are going online-only for the Fall semester. How will your child…
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109: Education in a time between worlds
It seems pretty clear that we are in a societal ‘liminal space’ right now, which is a threshold between what we have known until now and what we will know in the future. We are also in a liminal space related to learning and education, as schools hastily try to move learning online (despite disparities…
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