“We are in panic mode…” so said yet another parent of a senior. Her daughter from Madison’s Daniel Hand High School is a strong student, a good kid etc. but she like most was frozen in place due to the pandemic and did not start the college process until senior year began. The pandemic creates […]
Read More“Travis has done nothing.” Kathryn a mother from East Lyme, Connecticut noted about her son’s college search. She then relayed what I’ve heard so many times through the years – particularly about boys – that he tunes out discussions about college. She had heard about our college counseling from other parents at East Lyme High […]
Read MoreI am a lawyer by training. I left full time practice in 2000 to pursue my calling as an educator-counselor and started The Learning Consultants in an effort to help parents with their college counseling, test prep, and tutoring needs. I was suddenly an entrepreneur and was faced with doing my now more complicated taxes. […]
Read More“Dina told me that she hated [college]…” Lynn noted as she relayed the thoughts of her friend who had referred The Learning Consultants for college counseling to her. Lynn’s son attended Old Saybrook High School in Old Saybrook, Connecticut with Dina’s son who was a couple years older and quite different than Lynn’s son. I […]
Read More“I wish we started last year….” another parent said as she left our Old Saybrook office after a college counseling session. Year after year, I have heard some parents lament that they should have started college counseling earlier. But this year – obviously due to Covid – this is the most common comment I hear […]
Read MoreTo paraphrase Thomas Friedman, author of The World Is Flat, who paraphrased Bill Gates: Twenty years ago, from a purely career-financial perspective, if you had the choice of being a “B” student from Brooklyn or an “A” student from Bombay, you would choose the former because America’s economic domination was so thorough that opportunities were […]
Read More“I figure what’s the worst that can happen. I’ll come back here and live in a big house by the water.” said Liam a completely honest junior from Guilford High School. This was a decade ago. I had pressed Liam about the obvious: did his family situation dull his motivation? Liam’s response was surprising […]
Read MoreSeveral years ago, Denise, a mother from Old Lyme, Connecticut, relayed some troubling news about some of her son’s friends who had graduated from Lyme-Old Lyme High School. Three had dropped out of college and while each might go back she thought they were heading down the wrong path as their dominant way of earning […]
Read More“He’s given more thought to mastering Call of Duty than which colleges interest him.” Terry, a mother of a student from Lyme-Old Lyme High School, in Old Lyme, Connecticut, lamented as she described her son Liam. Since I wrote Motivate Your Son, I am often the last resort for parents (often mothers!) who are their wits […]
Read More“I’m not paying for some frivolous degree.” Tom, a parent of student from East Lyme, Connecticut said about a decade ago. I remember the tension in the room. My work as a college counselor is designed to help parents/students reach their goals. My preferences are not part of the mix or I’ll simply state my […]
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