Your Child's Education

Some of the ideas in my PsychologyToday.com article today are contrary to conventional wisdom, but I feel confident that they're worth considering because they're informed by my three decades as an education and career advisor plus my Berkeley Ph.D. specializing in the evaluation of education.

Choosing Your Child's School: A parent's most important decision?

Parenting may be the most important subject they don’t teach in school or college. And among the most challenging, at least emotionally. 

Many writings on parenting can make you feel inadequate if you’re not perfectly consistent, ever striking the balance between setting limits and providing freedom, with no helicoptering Tiger Momming allowed!

Today's and the next few installments in my PsychologyToday.com series focuses on potent parenting practices that are realistic in the real world, what I call doables.

Because so much parenting literature focuses on birth-to-five, this series will focus on K-12. 

Today’s installment is on choosing your child’s school. That's probably the most potent single action a parent can take. Make the one-time effort to get your child into a well-suited school and you’ve gone a long way to ensuring your child gets an appropriate education and has a peer group you feel good about.

Public School? Private School? Home School?

Even though taxes pay for public schools, millions of parents spend a fortune to send their kids to private school or home school them. They fear the public schools will shortchange their child.

If you’re not sure what to do,

my PsychologyToday.com article today may help.

Asking the Right Questions: A potent tool for enhancing your professional and personal life.

Ask a question and you not only obtain desired information but show you’re interested in what the person has to say. The right question can be particularly potent in abetting you, professionally and personally.

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers useful questions to ask your boss, someone you're interviewing--from a shrink to a college admission officer, to a salesperson, to a romantic partner.

HERE is the link.

Parenting: Part II-- Your child's education: What's worth your time

My PsychologyToday.com article today is Part II in my four-part series on parenting. It presents a time-effective approach to being involved in your child's education.