Ski Racing/Parenting: Set Healthy Expectations
Setting expectations for your young ski racer is an essential responsibility of parenting. Expectations tell your children what’s important to you and establish a standard toward which they can strive. But expectations can be double-edged swords. They can be a tremendous benefit to your children’s development as both ski racers and people or they can […]
Read MoreEducation: S.T.A.M.P.E.R. not S.T.E.M. For Public Education Reform
S.T.E.M. is one of the acronyms du jour in the current public education debate. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, which represent, some argue, the four areas that act as the foundation for America maintaining its preeminent position as world leaders in innovation and technological advancement. Some education reformers believe that these four […]
Read MoreLatest News: New book preparation ahead of schedule!
Since I signed the contract for my third parenting book, tentatively titled, Parenting on Message: The 9 Essential Messages to Give Your Child a Great Start to Life (The Experiment Publishing) in mid-August, I have been under the gun (metaphorically speaking) to send my publisher a workable draft by Dec. 17th in order to have […]
Read MorePersonal Growth: Rhonda Byrne Proves There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute
There would be more than 19,000,000 and counting of those minutes given that is the number of copies of The Secret that have been sold to date. And that doesn’t include collateral minutes born of purchases of her CDs, DVDs, wall calendars, key rings, and assorted other inspirational tchotchkes available for sale. Plus, her new […]
Read MorePolitics: The Psychic Toll of the Great Recession
Of course I’m concerned about the financial well-being of our citizens. Every layoff and foreclosure hurts not only individuals and their families, but also the over-all health of our economy. But, given my Ph.D. in Psychology, I’m also deeply concerned about the impact of the Great Recession on the individual psyches of Americans who strain […]
Read MoreEducation: Test to the Teach
For those of you who follow my education-related posts (here is a primer), you know I’m no fan of testing in public schools as it is currently conceived and used. In my view, the cart is firmly before the horse, where the horse of quality education is being pulled by the cart of testing rather […]
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