Parenting tips to help kids recognize a key to success: “Learn from your failures.” Our first step is erasing the belief: “Mistakes are bad!” Do you want your child to succeed? (And what parent doesn’t.) Then know this: kids cannot learn to persevere, unless they recognize how to deal with failure. Mistakes can be a [...]

Parenting tips I shared on TODAY for kids who procrastinate, dawdle, cut corners or just take the easy way. It’s the makeover no parent should put off! Sound like  your kid? “I don’t care!  I quit – this is too hard.”  “Why don’t YOU do it?” Is his backpack a disaster, homework always a battle and everything [...]

Teach your children to hang in there when the going gets tough, but know when to let them throw in the towel. Parenting advice I shared with Al Roker on the TODAY show Perseverance often makes the critical distinction between whether kids succeed or fail. Will they have the inner strength to keep on or [...]

Did you know that more top CEOs in United States graduated from a state college than an Ivy League University such as Harvard, Yale, or Princeton? Shocked? Research is showing there’s a far more important predictor of a grad’s future success than the prestige of the school or faculty or even the price of tuition. [...]

By Michele Borba What parent doesn’t hope their kids achieve and do well in life? But how do you know when you’re pushing your kids too much? How do you tell when your expectations are unrealistic or just plain not right for your children? A big secret of good parenting is to know how to [...]