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100 Skills to Teach Teens Before College

Here are 100 common skills college students need, but don’t always have: Say “no” Set and manage a goal with a timetable and milestones Communicate with professors and teaching assistants…

ScholarShare 529March 1, 2024

Parenting

4 Items to Add to Your College Checklist

With your kid heading to college soon, you’ve created a checklist. It’s long. But here are four items you probably didn’t think to include.

ScholarShare 529March 1, 2024

Parenting

Discussing Your Child’s First Semester of College Together

Your child’s first months of college may have been challenging, stellar, or somewhere in between. Whether it’s your first child to wrap up an initial phase of college or your…

Patricia A. Roberts, J.D.December 5, 2023

Parenting

Preparing for Your First-Year Student’s Return Home

What’s sometimes overlooked in the preparation process is that the child you dropped off just a few months prior may be returning home transformed in one way or another with…

Patricia A. Roberts, J.D.November 16, 2023

Parenting Senior Student

Last Call List for High School Senior Year

The temptation is to bore you with a long list of lasts. The last first day of high school, the last birthday at home, or the last varsity game. But…

ScholarShare 529August 22, 2023

Parenting

Parent Tips for Navigating Senior Year

...but with some pre-planning, the long-term rewards of helping your child navigate through this pivotal year can outweigh any short-term stress along the way. Here are four tips to help…

Patricia A. Roberts, J.D.August 21, 2023

Junior Student Parenting

Dear Parent of High School Junior

If you have kept in depth discussion of the subject under wraps during Freshman and Sophomore years, you and your teen are about to go on a voyage of discovery…

ScholarShare 529August 20, 2023

Academic Success Junior Student Parenting Senior Student

How to Strengthen Your Student’s Growth Mindset

In the academic setting, habits of thinking influence the ways students begin, manage, and explain the results of tasks, like projects and papers. Their mindsets—attributional beliefs about their abilities as…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.August 19, 2023

Junior Student Parenting Senior Student

A Necessary Partnership

There’s even a seasonal lawn mower parent—the “snow blower” who clears obstacles out of their student’s way. Quite likely, these or similar terms have contributed to less-than-optimal relationships between families…

Michelle Samuels-Jones, Ed.D.August 16, 2023

Using the Envelope System to Manage Time

Academic Success Parenting Senior Student

Teach Your Student to Use the Envelope System to Manage Time

How? Students today need a malleable strategy for managing time and real-time thought solutions for when things don’t go as planned. This is why I teach students the envelope system…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.August 12, 2023

Academic Success Junior Student Parenting

How to Help Your Student Build Agency in Academic Tasks

Agency can be conceptualized as using one’s motivation and ability to influence an outcome. It is exerted when a student 1) recognizes a problem or opportunity, 2) identifies within their…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.August 7, 2023

Parenting

A Parent-Use Packing List for College Drop-off Day

...parents of soon-to-be college students could benefit from their own special kind of packing list to help navigate their child’s transition to college and the range of emotions involved. Here…

Patricia A. Roberts, J.D.July 29, 2023

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