In 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 […]
Read MoreI wrote Motivate Your Son in 2012. Based on my Student Mastery (student training) and college counseling work, I noticed that girls were outperforming boys in school and far more invested in the college process than boys. Research proved my anecdotal evidence correct. My normally upbeat way of being did not prevent me from sounding […]
Read MoreHaving worked with Connecticut high school students for the last 20 years, I have a deep understanding of the psychological and practical challenges faced by parents as they send their children off to college. Having done so with three of my own (last one leaving next week), I fully understand the enormity of the process […]
Read MoreI have some sense of optimism regarding the return of normalcy or at least post-pandemic normalcy. Given my work related to both teaching and counseling students in Connecticut, I have noticed in the last few years a profound need for more educational counseling. The epidemics of anxiety and depression and various subcategories of each have […]
Read MoreSingle Men My first book was Motivate Your Son. I was surprised by its commercial success. I was surprised by how many people from all over the country bought the book. I was stunned when those from other English speaking countries tracked me down. I thought it was a book to help those in Shoreline Connecticut and […]
Read MoreHope brings its friends optimism, happiness, and excitement. Having worked with teens/young adults in Shoreline, CT for 20 years, I wish that I could bring back the amount of hope that I saw when I first started. Hope derives from the thought that something better lies ahead. Back in the not too distant past… most […]
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