Guides for parents
Honest, practical reads on building a child's record beyond grades: what works, what it costs, and how to start.
Passion projects for college applications: the honest parent guide
What passion projects and spikes really are, why admissions cares, what they cost, why Grade 11 panic projects fail, and how to start free this week.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
An honest answer, including when a raw chatbot is exactly what you need.
How to help your child find a real project, without choosing it for them
Why assigned projects fail, what the search itself teaches, and a four question method any family can run this weekend.
Project based learning at home
The four conditions that make a project work, the three ways parents accidentally kill one, and what to do this month.
My teenager has no interests. They do. Here is how to find them
How to read attention instead of enthusiasm, and the four questions that surface a real direction.
One project, five subjects
How a single real project contains maths, writing, science, art and economics at once, and how to map it without turning it into homework.
Project ideas by age, 10 to 17
What changes developmentally between 10 and 17, what size of project fits each stage, and worked examples at every age.
The setback advantage
Why recovery reads better than perfection, and how to record a setback while it is still true.
What a grade keeps, and what it throws away
A grade is a compression that stores one letter and discards the year. What your child's school report is actually telling you, and the year it throws away.
When a parent becomes the reminder system
What changes when the remembering moves off the parent and onto a dated record. Written for families where that pattern is familiar, including families where a child has been diagnosed with ADHD.
When one interest is the whole world
Schools call it narrowness. A single deep interest reaches into more subjects than a timetable does. Written for families of autistic children and any family where one subject has taken over.