#Get a Grip Newsletter, #15
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Hello friends,
If you are like me, it feels like each day in February is picking up speed, and time flies by even faster. I have started 2020 off with another basal cell skin cancer (wear your sunscreen!) surgery, so being off the courts, I have been busy on the computer creating some download content for the website.
Thank you, everyone, for the positive feedback on the eBook,
"Simple Goal Setting for Young Athletes". I have had record numbers of downloads. and I appreciate everyone sharing it with friends and colleagues. Many thanks!
This issue of #Get a Grip, I created calendar and planner templates for easy download "Print and Go!" I hope you find them useful. Next issue, I will have a new eBook on the College Recruiting Process.
I would love to know any tools that you use to keep organized and on top of the parenting craziness!
You can email me here.
Quick shout out,
thank you, to our readers who supplied the recipe and question for this issue.
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Student-athletes all have a lot to accomplish each day, but with a proper planner set up, our athletes can stay on task and achieve their goals.
I always recommend taking a few minutes each evening before bed to plan your nest day, and a step further, to take some time each Sunday evening to plan your upcoming week.
Combine these planner worksheets with my eBook “Simple Goal Setting for Young Athletes” to complete your personal goal system.
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Why Teenagers Reject Parents’ Solutions to Their Problems
It’s usually because we’re not giving them what they’re really looking for.
How To Be Happier And More Purposeful
Author and Harvard professor David Maister says "success is enjoying your life. If you don’t enjoy what you do, the company of the people you do it with, and the impact you are making in the world… it cannot be considered success.”
The Hardest Part of Parenting is Watching Our Teens Make Mistakes
Your son gets caught smoking pot. Your daughter gets suspended from school for drinking at a football game. Your son throws eggs at a cop car (really? a cop car?). Or I guess I should say “my sons and my daughter” but I am imagining you have had similar situations in your family.
THE ULTIMATE LIST OF SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
College can be expensive. That’s why scholarships for women are so valuable. First, they help lower the cost of going to school, which is worthwhile in itself. Second, they are only open to female students, making them potentially less competitive.
How to Appeal a Financial Aid Award When Your Family Needs More Money
by Jeff Levy | January 6, 2020
So what steps should you take to appeal a financial aid award? How do you most persuasively request a review? What should you write in the appeal letter that will win your case?
Aspen Institute's Project Play Summit:
THE NATION'S PREMIER GATHERING OF LEADERS BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES THROUGH SPORTS
Ten Things I Should Have Taught My College Kids BEFORE They Left Home
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During a meeting with a new client, I was asked:
"When does my child need to start preparing for the college recruiting process?"
You can always start the preparation with academic planning with your school counselor during the freshman year. It isn't until the spring of sophomore year that the active work begins.
- Create a letter and email templates for corresponding with coaches.
- Create a pdf resume/bio with your academic, athletic, and extracurricular information
- Tennis players can upload the pdf and a picture to personalize their UTR player profile
- Email the coaches with your summer schedules, so they know where they can watch you compete
- Coaches can respond to the athletes's email in early June
- If the athlete has completed Algebra 2, they will be ready to take the SAT. I recommend taking the August test date, so that they can prepare over the summer without regular school course load. Here is the link to the SAT test dates.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the author of Untangled
Being a mother of all boys, I have gravitated to the "raising boys" books. Being from a family of 3 girls, I felt woefully unprepared for raising boys. Now that I work predominantly with girls, and my significant other has girls, I ordered this book immediately with the tremendous reviews that have been circulating in the past few weeks.
This is a phenomenal book that I highly recommend to all parents, whether you have girls or boys!
In one interview, the author gave three things to know about stress and anxiety in teens.
- Anxiety Protects Us: To psychologists, anxiety is an evolutionary gift that keeps teenagers safe by alerting them to threats.
- Stress Builds Capacity: Stress is an unavoidable part of life – and one that arises under positive and negative conditions.
- Avoidance Feeds Anxiety: Humans instinctively avoid whatever we fear.
Amazon Description:
Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls. Research finds that the number of girls who said that they often felt nervous, worried, or fearful jumped 55 percent from 2009 to 2014, while the comparable number for adolescent boys has remained unchanged. As a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with girls, Lisa Damour, Ph.D., has witnessed this rising tide of stress and anxiety in her own research, in private practice, and in the all-girls’ school where she consults. She knew this had to be the topic of her new book.
Has anyone else used this book or have a great book to share? I would love your thoughts and suggestions in our
#Get a Grip Facebook Group. Or you can
EMAIL me here.
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This issue's
Meaningful Meals
conversation starter:
"What's your favorite story about an ancestor?"
This issue's
Meaningful Meals
recipe:
This chowder is fantastic! And don't let the name fool you, it is just as good in the middle of winter! I made it for the first time earlier this week, and we plowed through the entire batch. I am not a huge zucchini eater, so I love that this soup got me eating a vegetable that I usually avoid.
Just as an FYI, soups with potatoes tend not to freeze well. The potatoes get a bit mealy, so enjoy it, don't freeze it!
Thank you to our reader, Resham, for sharing the recipe.
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Their mission is to Inspire children through mentoring, education, and entrepreneurship, and equipping them with life skills and the ability to earn a college scholarship.
Here are just a few of their statistics:
- 500 Learning Tree Tennis Programs in the schools and parks
- 115 Children have received college Scholarships
- 110 Children receive mentoring and education programming
- 80 Children get tournament and travel scholarships
- 50 Children are chosen for elite mentoring and education programming
- 30 Children travel on East and West coast leadership tours
- 12 Children have reached top 10 USA rankings
- 95% of the children in the leadership programming have received a college scholarship
100% of the donations go to the children, with the advisory board pays for all administrative and fundraising costs!
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