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The Gift of Failure: What You Can Do to Coach Your Student to Success

Amy Baldwin | January 20, 2020

Lauren is a student who has always been driven to succeed. Both her parents are highly successful in the business world, and she has an older brother who started law school last fall. When she arrived her freshman year, she brought with her an uncompromising attitude...

Career / College

Networking 101: What Your Student Needs to Know about Connecting with Others

Amy Baldwin | December 19, 2019

At the end of the fall semester, I mentioned to one of my students that she would make a great peer mentor. At my college, we employ sophomores, juniors, and seniors to coach our students on all kinds of topics such as time management, dealing with changes in...

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Home for the Holidays and Other Myths

Amy Baldwin | December 10, 2019

When my daughter arrived at home for the holidays after her first semester at college, I was ready to see her walk up the stairs to her room and not emerge again until she had slept for 24-hours straight. I remember well the level of exhaustion that comes with trying...

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Let Your Student Talk to the Professor

Amy Baldwin | October 26, 2019

A good friend of mine called recently to vent. Her daughter is a freshman in college a few hours away from home and by all accounts is doing well. Except for this one class, my friend tells me. The freshman (as well as her mother) is frustrated because the class is...

College / High School

Dealing with Disappointment: How to Coach Your College Student to Handle Adversity

Amy Baldwin | September 22, 2019

Earlier this summer I was helping my oldest with internship applications. She had applied to half a dozen programs and was, fingers crossed, poised to work out of state for the summer in a field that she loves and is majoring in. Internships at this stage of her...

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5 Secrets of Starting the Semester Off Right

Amy Baldwin | August 29, 2019

It’s the beginning of a new fall semester, and with that comes hope and promise that this semester will be great. Forget about last semester; that doesn’t count, right? No matter how well your student has done in the past and or how much they have learned...