Ideas & Insights

Posts ranging from our foundational ideas to recent developments to practical tips for parents and educators

Micromotives: A Secret Weapon for Teens (and the Rest of Us)

Remember that famous book from the early 2000s on “How to Talk So Your Teens Will Listen …”? It had great tips for tackling messy rooms...

Sep 276 min read

About seven years ago, I had one of those twilight zone moments: the kind where you realize you’re hearing something important, a truth...

Sep 24 min read

When my kids were in high school, the only thing more suspect than the youth-sports industrial complex was the college prep cartel. It...

Sep 23 min read

Nine years ago, my daughter was thirteen, a middle child in middle school, and we’d just moved across the country. I had two seemingly...

Sep 24 min read