Jody Stallings

I've been addressing the question of how parents can know when they're overindulging their children. We've examined two specific types of overindulgence, as categorized by the late parent expert Jean Illsey Clarke and her team of researchers. The first was Too Much. The second was Soft Structure. The last is called Overnurture.

Help! I have to give a presentation to my son’s elementary school. I have no idea what to expect. Can you give me some guidance?

My son's sixth-grade teacher gave him detention for chewing gum, but he was given the gum as a reward by another teacher. He knows it’s against the rules to chew

What are your thoughts on Personalized Education?

My kids’ school has a new policy where every teacher has the same grading percentages (60 percent tests and major grades, 40 percent daily grades and homework), but there have

It feels like every time a new program rolls out in my school district, it comes with a hefty cost. Is this really the only way to bridge the achievement

No matter how hard my son tries, there is a course he just can't get an A in. He gets A's in his other courses, and he's had all A's before. What can I do to get him over the hump?

I have three kids in different grades (elementary, middle and high school), and I'm worried about something: none of them enjoy reading, they aren't pushed to read, and they aren't

What happened to reading?

What happened to reading?