OverParenting

I am a member of the parent advisory committee at Bellevue school district. The committee recommended the Interlake option as our high school gifted program. Interlake school implements the IB programs. The following links can help parents and students understand IB better.
For parents:
1. IB parents guide at http://www.dp-help.com/.
For students:
1. So you like to get an [...]

I love this book by Judith Warner. You can get a glimpse of it at
www.perfectmadness.net/about.html
The book discussed American mother’s superwoman role today. In short, we are doing everything possible for our children, but at the same time, we lost the essential qualities like peace and happiness in our life.
While the book does not offer [...]

Please visit my boys’ blog at
www.wangsblog.com/jeffrey
www.wangsblog.com/andrew.
I recently encouraged my boys to start their own blogs. I am now able to see a different side of my kids that I was not really aware of. It is a new way of communications helping me understand more about where their passion lies.

Here are a few websites that you can see writing from other children.
http://www.stonesoup.com/
http://www.kidpub.com/
My older son also took two distance learning classes from Johns Hopkins CTY, http://cty.jhu.edu/writing/courses.html. He thinks both classes are quite helpful.