by Nina Parrish | Jan 16, 2017 | Education, New SAT, PSAT, SAT Prep, School, Students, Study Skills, Test Strategies, Tutoring
Most students take the PSAT, but I have found through talking to students and parents that many do not fully understand how to use the PSAT to prepare for the SAT. The PSAT score report can be one of your most useful tools when preparing for the SAT. You spent the...
by Nina Parrish | Jan 11, 2017 | Children, Family, Parenting
“Who is she talking to?” my older daughter says looking at the baby inquisitively. Our big silver SUV is bumping along crowded gray streets with cars lined up like dominoes. Lights flash yellow to red, horns honk. It’s rush hour. I look back. The baby holds her chubby...
by Nina Parrish | Nov 26, 2016 | Education, Huffington Post, Parenting
A concern I have heard from many parents during this election season is, “What will we tell our children?” Many times the behavior I see promoted in popular culture, Hollywood, and on television is not what I would want for my children. Since my kids are...
by Nina Parrish | Nov 25, 2016 | Education, Huffington Post, Parenting
There is a video that is creating quite a buzz on Facebook recently. It is about the benefits to kids of doing household chores. The video contains pictures, information, and statistics about children in the United States doing chores. (See below for full video...
by Nina Parrish | Nov 23, 2016 | Children, Community, Education, Parenting, volunteer
As I drove from my house in the country, fields and green lawns gave way to rows of colorful single-family homes and then to enormous gray warehouses and boxy brown garages. The buildings, encircled by towering chain-link fences with signs that read “Keep...
