by MKWray | Apr 22, 2024 | Featured Posts
With all of the chaos and uncertainty around COVID-19 and the transition to online classes, a lot of students (and parents!) are feeling stressed and overwhelmed about everything that’s going on and how out of control it all feels. In the face of such enormous...
by MKWray | Apr 4, 2024 | Blog
How do you feel about failure? Most of us aren’t crazy about it. But at some point, no matter how hard we try, we’re going to fail at something. So, it’s important to consider how to respond to failure when it does happen, and how to improve our resilience so we’re...
by MKWray | Feb 18, 2024 | Blog
Is your student more of an optimist, or a pessimist? Studies have shown that optimists experience a number of benefits later in life, as compared with their more pessimistic peers, including… Better test scores and higher GPAs Lower levels of stress, anxiety, and...
by MKWray | Feb 7, 2024 | Blog
Most students want to do well in school. But wanting to do well doesn’t guarantee they will feel motivated to work on assignments in the moment. Even students who usually get good grades have days when they just don’t feel like doing homework or studying for...
by MKWray | Jan 25, 2024 | Blog
“They know what they need to do.I’ve reminded them 10 times already.This isn’t that hard.Why aren’t they doing it?Do they just not care?” We talk to parents all the time who are worried that their kids just don’t seem to care about doing well,...
