As summer is fast approaching, I am working with students day and night who are stressed out about finals, stressed out about grades, stressed out about performance, competition, comparison, and acceptance. What they should be stressed out about is this: nothing. Nothing is worth taking away kids’ precious sleep, their sanity, their hopes, their lighthearted…
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Read Outside the Box: Love More, Hate Less
I learned very early on that I would have to read outside the box if I wanted to get outside of my small world. Sandra Cisneros, in The House on Mango Street, talks about the confining feeling of her city streets. Escape was unheard of. The scrawny trees stretched their branches toward the sky, desperate,…
The Pain and The Power of Shame
*This article contains an affiliate link. If you click on and buy the book link here, I will make a small commission at no additional cost to you. So if you do click and buy, thank you for your support! Shame The power of shame is mighty. I was 12 the first time I ever…