Remember when summer break used to mean riding bikes, playing in the park, going swimming at the neighborhood pool, and sitting outside laughing with your friends while enjoying a cool sweet treat? After nine months of bell schedules, bus rides, tests, and endless homework, you could look forward to some down time. Time to just relax, be a kid and have fun. Sometimes, a family vacay was even thrown into the mix when it was affordable. But even if you didn’t get to go away to grandma’s or ...
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If you haven't already asked yourself this question when you receive our Mamaversity Checkpoint posts and invites, we encourage you to do it now.

What can academic/life coaching do for my teen?

Children learn many things in school, including a few nontraditional soft skills that can enhance their growth and development. But how much are they actually invested and engaged in their own success? Much of what they do is done because they are told to do it, and that's not all bad. But the beginnin...
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Mamaversity has now blossomed from a private coaching experiment between me and our three children to a public life/academic coaching event.

Words can't express how excited and grateful I am about our official launch on last Saturday, October 12th! A special thanks goes out to my fellow coaches, Andrea Works and Yolanda Cameron, as well as to contributors, Dr. Carolyn Clansy Miller and Rhonda Miller-Eaglin. You ladies rock!

The feedback we got from our participating scholars was heartwarming an...
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