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Making Time for Connection: Why It’s Important in Early Childhood
Spending a few moments with a shared experience to connect and learn about your child as an individual is incredibly…
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The Challenges of the Middle School Parent
Decades of research show that the middle school years are the number one most challenging time in the life of…
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How to Use the “I Do, We Do, You Do” Model to Build Emotional Well-Being in Teens
Amanda Morin Former Vice President Learning and Knowledge, Jed Foundation (JED) We know that connection and a sense of belonging…
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Seven Tips for Raising Caring Kids
Raising a caring, respectful, ethical child is and always has been hard work. But it’s something all of us can…
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Scaffold Parenting: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety
Support, structure, and encouragement are the three pillars of scaffold parenting. At every stage, parents can model and teach positive…
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Disabilities versus Differences: The Language We Use Matters
When people say learning difference instead of learning disability, it is usually with good intention and/or to avoid any possible…
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Work the Line
The college process, like fishing, is not always linear, following a preordained path, but with support, encouragement, and unconditional love,…
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Thinking About a Tutor?
Experts from the Tutoring League of New York joined us for a virtual panel designed for families currently in or…
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Preparing for Yesterday’s Society
One of the best ways to ensure your child’s current and future success is by finding a school community where…
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Doubting Ourselves as Parents: Let’s Get to the Heart of It
Whether you’ve been a parent for months, years or decades, we’ll bet you’ve had moments of worry and second guessing.…
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An Introduction to Executive Functioning: When to Step Back versus When to Scaffold
Caregivers can step back and foster a gradual transition to greater autonomy while simultaneously providing a space for taking risks,…
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Making the Positive Push: How to Transform Harmful Pressure into Healthy Pressure
It turns out that applying pressure is a parental instinct. However, focusing on how much pressure is the right amount…
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Care, Don’t Scare: 13 Tips for Parents about Sexual Assault Prevention
A parent’s role in sexual assault prevention begins with acknowledging that sex is a normal part of a healthy life,…
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How to Teach Children to Regulate Their Emotions
Teaching children to control their anger requires three tools: calmness, physicality, and awe. These tools not only settle down a…
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Resolutions for the New Year
As we reflect on the year past and look to the New Year, Barbara Scott shares her list of resolutions…
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Social Skills: How to Detect Gaps and Build Proficiency in Children of All Ages
Social-emotional learning expert and author Caroline Maguire shares seven skills that will help kids to be socially successful.
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Empowering Conversations about Schoolwork with Your Child
As parents, we easily get caught up in an achievement agenda. Instead, sharing our observations, connecting to the work, and…
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Up, Up and Away: Back to School 2022
Back-to-school 2022–what is the new normal? For every family, fall is different. Executive Director, Barbara H Scott shares her back-to-school…
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College: At What Cost?
Why do we go to college? How do you define the value of college? There are no easy answers, just…
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Women’s History Month Book List
Understanding history helps children understand themselves. As we celebrate Women's History Month this March, Parents League presents books spanning all…
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Booklist: Parenting Advice
We're pleased to present our picks from the Bookshop.org stacks! This list features the top experts covering parenting issues.
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Review 2023
The 2023 issue of our annual journal on parenting and education is available to members! Read these insightful articles via…
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February: The Season of Hearts
As the shortest month on the calendar, February feels like a Wednesday. You are eager to see the week come…
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Black History Month Book List
Understanding history helps children understand themselves. As we celebrate Black History Month this February, Parents League presents books spanning all ages.
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Parents League Review 2022
We are thrilled to deliver the 2022 issue of the Parents League Review, our annual compilation of articles about parenting…
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Covid Testing in Schools: What’s New?
Parents League highlights information that you and your family can use today if a trusted family pediatrician is unavailable. Order…
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The New Masculinity: No Better Time for Boys
The most powerful way parents can support their sons is to listen to them. The gift of a parent’s interest…
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Our Bookshop Recommendations
We're pleased to present our picks from the Bookshop.org stacks! To launch this series of booklists, we look to the…
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More Digital, Less Dexterous?
As children are exposed to more screens and apps, they may be losing the skills to help them thrive. Montessori…
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Back to the Open
Like a backhand slice is a tool in tennis, heading back to school with COVID-19 and the Delta variant means…
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Protecting Childhood
Childhood ought to be a time in which you find out what you love to do, what you are good…
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Covid Testing in Schools: Where to Go When You Need a Test
With the new variant on the rise, independent schools in and around New York City are requiring PCR covid testing,…
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ADHD 2.0: A Conversation with Author Ned Hallowell
Dr. Ned Hallowell draws on the latest science to provide both children and adults a plan for minimizing the downside…
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7 Parent Resources for When Your Child Is at Home
You may be wondering how you can best manage your time at home with your child during the holidays. At…
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Sibling Relationships and Special Needs
The sibling relationship serves as a template for other relationships—and reactions are varied. When a child with a disability becomes…
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Understanding Racial Identity: An Interview with Beverly Daniel Tatum
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., president emerita of Spelman College, is a psychologist and the author of "Why Are All the…
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White Children and Race
I am white and have been educating other white people about the meaning of race in our lives for the…
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Five Tips for Judging News Reliability
Encourage kids to ask questions about the information they’re receiving. Are there any inconsistencies in the content? Is the argument…
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Unlocking Children’s Math Potential
All students can achieve in mathematics at high levels. If we can bring about changes in mathematics teaching, many more…
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Playing to Learn: Inside and Outside of School
Providing the time, space and materials for play—as well as being a caring play partner—makes parents strong advocates for play…
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Children Need a Sense of Control
When they feel a sense of control, children and teens are focused, goal-directed, present-centered and optimistic—and not highly stressed. They…
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The Psychologist Parent
After spending the day reading through research on child and adolescent development, formulating advice for parents, and providing therapeutic support…
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The Art of the Toy
There is a great deal to learn about the past from the history of toys. Toys show up in the…
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Rigor and the Pursuit of Happiness
Each year thousands of parents make one of the most important decisions of their lives: To which school shall I…
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The Gift of Bilingualism
Infancy through age 5 is believed to be a critical period in learning a second language. With 50 percent more…
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The Power and Perils of Technology
Raising and educating children was hard enough as it was. The addition of a new variable to the equation seems…
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Aija Mayrock, Author of The Survival Guide to Bullying
We were excited to bring Aija Mayrock to speak at Trevor Day School on Thursday, October 12th at 6:30pm! Watch…
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Growth Mindset and the Future of Our Children
What do we want our children to be? Do we want them to be people who try to get A’s…
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Practice Makes Perfect
When my students take tests or quizzes, I like to walk around the room to check on their progress, ensure…
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10 Tips for Parenting Your Quiet Child
In my 2012 TED Talk, I told the story of going off to summer camp for the first time at…
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Is Anxiety in Young Boys the New Normal?
I’ve been in practice for 35 years. In the old days, most parents of lower school boys came to see…
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Strategies on Replacing Screens and Stress with Human Connection and Success
In this modern age of distraction, many parents and teachers are concerned about the short and long term effects of…
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Family Life in the Digital Age
“Thank goodness for texting,” Claire says of life with two teenage daughters, one who lives two time zones away in…
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