What if…. you considered the greatness of the American college experience? Throughout history, the normal transition to adulthood went something like this: Boys become men by becoming soldiers or starting full time farming or manual labor or, if lucky, taking a bigger role in the family business. Girls become women by marrying some older guy. […]
Read More“Jared has still not complete the Common App….” So I read my e-mail from Jared’s mom. Jared was a senior at Valley Regional High School in Connecticut and like a large number of students (particularly boys) he had procrastinated parts of the college application process. The problem was that he was applying to several schools […]
Read MoreDoes moving to a different location “matter” in terms of how your life is affected? Does the group of people you are around “matter” in terms of how your life is affected? Does the general atmosphere/environment of where you are “matter” in terms of how your life is affected? Rhetorical questions, of course. But each […]
Read More“The Amazon sounds great. But I know almost nothing about you.” So was my reaction to an essay written years ago by a student from East Lyme. She was fortunate enough to travel to the Amazon. People told her that she had to write the essay about her trip. She did and it sounded like […]
Read More“I don’t know. I need to know more. A lot more. And then I give you expert advice. Otherwise, I will be glib but not thoughtful and that could lead to poor advice.” I say some version of the above at least once or twice per week. The most popular topic of conversation among parents […]
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 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 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 […]
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