I do not automatically suggest college as the only post high school alternative. I was recently meeting with a family from Essex, Connecticut and extolling the virtues of exploring the trades (plumbing in particular) and the military for their son who had straight Ds in high school. So to be clear, I am not someone […]
Read MoreThe anxiety epidemic is real. I have been working with students in the Shoreline region of Connecticut for twenty years. Our clients live in the leafy suburbs of Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Essex, Old Lyme, East Lyme and other nearby towns. I know this overall changing student population of high school students in Southeastern, CT […]
Read MoreAs always… all names and identifying details are changed when describing interactions with our college counseling clients. Steve and Linda are well meaning parents from Old Lyme, Connecticut. I met with them several years ago in relation to their son Kyle. Reading from what seems to be the current “good parent playbook”, they said that […]
Read MoreIf you haven’t noticed, I’ll play Captain Obvious and declare a crisis related to the mental health of teens. When I started this work a couple decades ago, the percentage of students with anxiety and depression was slim. Now, it’s common. That’s anecdotal. Here are some facts. The pandemic exasperated all the challenges that […]
Read MoreSign up now. We have been immersed in college counseling over the last two years. Yes… we advise some student that spending energy on the SAT won’t matter. But usually, these are students who are not applying to particularly competitive colleges or know for certain that they are well within the admissions range of colleges […]
Read MoreIn my college counseling work, I’ve been working with an increasing number of students transferring college. Certainly, not thriving academically or knowing what they will do for a major are issues but the biggest issue is social anxiety or lack of social success. Simply put, those who are thriving socially rarely transfer, even if struggling […]
Read MoreLast year, Dana called with the voice that I know so well: a caring mom who had tried for many years to inspire her son to work harder. Dan a student in East Lyme, CT, had never been particularly motivated but the pandemic brought his academic energy to a new low. Getting him to attend […]
Read MoreI know that part of the reason The Learning Consultants’ college counseling has been so busy of late relates to our career counseling expertise. Parents are not readily departing with hundreds of thousands of dollars anymore simply for their child to have a great college experience. To be clear, I think the whole child-adult transition […]
Read MoreWe are in the midst of a work revolution that started well before the pandemic. Arguably, the great disruption started with the age of computers in the 1990s but certainly the disruption was magnified with extreme intensity due to the Internet. Other forces – globalization, automation, artificial intelligence – have further created a work revolution […]
Read MoreRemember reading about the Industrial Revolution during history class? Remember learning about those farmers who had no idea that the work world was radically changing? As such, they advised their children to follow them into the family farming business, unwittingly setting them up for a life of economic hardship. “We” – as in the bulk […]
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