Ten years of writing about kids, teenagers, and the parents trying to read them.
Start with what's happening
Six topicsWhen They Go Away to College and Beyond
Everything in high school points at getting in. Almost nothing prepares anyone, the student or the parent, for the four years after.
Two posts → 01When They're Overwhelmed and Overbearing
The reaction is enormous and the thing that caused it was small. What is actually happening, and what to do while they are still in it.
Three posts → 02When They Have to Do Their Work
Homework, motivation and the nightly fight. Why lazy is almost never the right word for what you are looking at.
Three posts → 03When They Won't Listen
They heard you. Why it bounces off anyway, and what gets through instead of the lecture.
Two posts → 04When You're Worried About Screens
Probably not addiction. What the screen is doing for them, which is the only question that leads anywhere useful.
One post → 05When You're the One Struggling
The posts that are not really about your kid. On worry, recency bias, and parenting without applause.
Three posts →If you have read three of these and you are still not sure, that is usually the moment to ask.
A consultation is one conversation. You describe what you are seeing, and I tell you whether it sounds like something, what I would watch, and what I would do next.
