What is Academic Life Coaching? A Guide for Parents
What is academic life coaching? Academic life coaching helps students learn. With coaching, students typically do better on tests, improve their grades, reduce school-related stress, and learn valuable...
View ArticleTime Management for Teens — Cut Study Time by 30%
Time management for teens is an executive functioning skill which is essential for academic success. Since I started “Skills for Academic Success”, I’ve heard more and more questions about time...
View Article3 Ways to Help Your Teen Manage School Stress
Most teens (83%) say that school is a significant source of stress in their life. Here’s how you can help your teen manage school stress. For teens, stress looks like this: Getting to school late...
View ArticleEnd Procrastination Around Homework: A 3 Minute Strategy for Teens
The Homework Bottleneck Do you wish sometimes that there was a simple way to end procrastination around homework? First, take a minute and ask yourself which of these scenarios sounds more like your...
View ArticleStress Management in the Workplace: How to Redesign Your Job
Workplace stress is at an all-time high. A recent poll shows that more than 80% of U.S. workers are stressed about their jobs. Stress not only affects your health, job satisfaction, and well-being, but...
View ArticleAnxiety in Women: The 5 Most Common Symptoms
Anxiety in women is different from anxiety in men. Overall, women report more anxiety. Women are 60% more likely to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Women also face different stressors, because...
View ArticleWhat it Really Takes to Get Good Grades (and it’s Not about Being Smart)
If you’ve ever wondered how to get good grades, maybe something like this has gone through your mind… I’m not good at languages. History isn’t my thing. I’m not a math person. I often hear comments...
View ArticleThe Top Three Myths About Stress
The top three myths about stress… When you think about stress, if you’re like most people, you probably think about what’s happening in your life – tension at work, a disagreement with your partner,...
View ArticleDoes Multitasking Lower Your IQ? [Stanford Study]
Multitasking and teens… My client Josh sits in front of his computer after school, working on an essay for his history class. He stops for a minute to answer a text from a friend asking if he has the...
View ArticleHow to Give Advice to Teens (And Why They Don’t Take It)
How to Give Advice to Teens Here’s a question I hear from parents a lot – and to be fair, it’s one I’ve asked myself many times: How come when I suggest something to my daughter she gets mad, but when...
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