Alex So your other book, Straight Talk About Psychological Testing for Kids, does a deep dive on how psychological testing works and how parents can use it to help their kids. Could you talk about this a little bit? Specifically,...
Alex When our children are struggling with anxiety or managing learning disabilities, it can feel instinctual as parents and caregivers to jump in and fix it, to tell them it’s fine, and to use the skills we have as adults...
Alex Of the skills you teach now, which do you think are going to be most applicable to college students in five to ten years from now? Dale Well, I’m all about time management and planner, so I think that’s...
Alex What do you think makes transition into higher education so difficult? And do you notice any patterns with kids that struggle to make it okay? Dale I think it really starts at home. I think the way that we’ve...
Alex In the last episode, we considered the support structures for students with IEPs, 504s, and the like in college. This episode we’ll extend the concept of support to the general student population. What are the best ways to support...
When I was 18 my throat sealed up, covered with giant white lumps like little pebbles on the tonsils, so pronounced I couldn’t swallow without biting pain. they dosed me up on Codeine at the health center set beside Lamont...
When I was 22 I worked as a production assistance for ESPN in Bristol. They would give us a game to watch and you’d carefully watch and log each play in the game, then you’d put together a highlight with...
Back to school means all the possibilities and the pitfalls occur in equal measure for parents and students alike. That's normal. healthy, and helpful. Families are right where they need to be....
US News College Rankings recently released its annual list and has come under fire for dropping Columbia from 2 to 18 after some controversy over Columbia’s misreporting of class sizes… at least, it’s come under fire from a lot of...