Jody Stallings

Such a terrible tragedy in Georgia where a student killed four people at his high school. I’m thinking about the shooter’s parents. It looks like they made a lot of

I saw a report on how many kids in public preschools are getting suspended. Suspending kids that young (or at any age) really leads them straight to prison, especially if they're suspended disproportionately. When are we going to fix this?

Jody Stallings My son's teacher praised him for being so independent, mentioning that many of her other students require a lot of help even with basic tasks.

My children have encountered a few small issues at school, likely because my spouse and I have been too indulgent. We were both spoiled in our childhoods, making it challenging to recognize when we're making the same mistakes with our children. Additionally, knowing the appropriate amount of indulgence in today's consumer-driven society is difficult. What help can you offer parents like us who want to change, but aren't even sure how?

How can parents know when they're overindulging their children? This was last week's question, which launched a discussion of the three 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 is called "Soft Structure."

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