I often come in contact with 2 types of parents at work. The first parent tells me that their 3rd grader is doing so well in math that they don’t think help is needed and the second parent tells me that their 8th grader used to do so well in math but is now struggling. [...]
“I ask my daughter of nothing!” a prospective student’s mom told me during our first in-person assessment. “I clean her room, do her laundry, pick her up, drop her off and even clean after the dog that her boyfriend gave her for Christmas!” she went on saying.
“And what do you ask for in return?” I [...]
Have you ever heard about the “pencil treatment”? If not, you’re not alone. I didn’t know what pencil treatment was either until today during a lunch meeting with a couple of good friends, one of whom is an accomplished surgeon.
“The pencil treatment,” my surgeon friend said, ” is placing a pencil in between my fingers [...]