
GUEST POST: The 7 Deadly Sins of College Applications
Otherwise flawless college applications can be destroyed by one big mistake.

Glory Days Well They’ll Pass You By
I’ve had many glory days since I danced to The Pretenders outside my first car, and I’ll have many more.

Snow Days Won’t Hurt Your Kids. You on the Other Hand…
No word on how snow days affect the parents’ ability to get any kind of meaningful work done.

Surviving High School: The Wonderful-Awful Years
Everything you need to know about surviving high school with as few emotional scrapes and bruises as possible is in “The Breakfast Club.”

Everyone is Special 101: Prep Schools Bar College Acceptance Celebration
File this under the “Everybody is special” category and hand out the participation trophies.

A Whale of a High School Orientation
Colleges are watching my son, the one who had piles of construction paper filled with sketches of orcas on his bedroom floor.

RADICAL PARENTING: Classmates I'd Like to Make Babies with
The whole idea of such a public (and unregulated) voting system on self-esteem, looks and sexuality made my skin crawl.