Growing Wiser
Chris Balmethoughts on how to raise wise, loving, capable adolescents
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Work vs work
In high school, I got used to working hard. Grinding it out. Most days I’d work until late at night, and there was a strange comfort in it. As a mentor of mine reminds me, we humans tend to choose what is familiar over what is healthy. And...
We Are the Trees Now
Sitting with a group of middle school teachers the other day, I was struck by a particularly vulnerable share from one. She was 25 years into her teaching career, and despite loving the work, she admitted she wondered if she could keep goin...
Do Adolescents Want Connection with Parents?
In the hit show MythBusters, all manner of myths, urban legends, and assumptions are put to the test, with a certain kind of skeptical and scientific glee. You can’t help but be curious about which ones will turn out to be true.
Hmm, could...
Why do adolescents complain so much (and what can we do)?
Recently I was facilitating a group of parents in a middle school, in what we joked was a “parenting group therapy” session, when a question came up that I hear all the time. It has different versions but boils down to Why does my kid compl...
The Atlantis Room
It was one of the worst days of my life as a new school leader.
Across from me sat several parents, smoke coming out of their ears. We were in a coffeeshop in San Francisco right after school. It was probably a month since our brand-new s...
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Education leader, writer & speaker. Exploring how to raise wise, loving, capable adolescents. Author of Finding the Magic in Middle School, founder of www.argonaut.school.
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