Every week a new parent asks me: “How can I get my child to focus?...they just don’t manage their time well”. “How do I get them to care about school?” These types of questions are endless. In order to do well in today’s competitive environment, parents have to be very creative when it comes to teaching their kids how to succeed. My parents, like many others, were immigrants to the US and dealt with different academic expectations and cultural norms. When families like mine i

As a professional success coach, parents ask me this question all the time. In today’s competitive high school environment, time management is key to being successful in the plethora of academic and extracurricular pursuits that your child is involved in. It is unrealistic to expect your child to learn time management strategies on their own, especially when their world is littered with distractions such as Netflix, Snapchat, and Instagram. These media outlets are the black h