Q. 1: I read your column about test anxiety with interest. I鈥檓 not anxious about taking tests as much as I鈥檓 anxious about getting good grades. I worry about grades all the time. It feels like my grades are all that matter to my mom. 鈥� 16-year-old ...
Every summer for more than I can recall, I've read, or reread, two books, both by F. Scott Fitzgerald. One is the novel he was working on at the time of his death in 1940, at the age of 44 - 鈥淭he Last Tycoon,鈥� or more properly, 鈥淭he Love of the Last Tycoon, A Western.鈥� The other is ...
Q. I鈥檓 one of the teen fathers you helped. I remember you treating me with respect and encouraging me. One of the last things you said to me when I graduated was, 鈥淐all me if you need me.鈥� Well, here I am, 25 years later. The baby we had as teens did well, mostly because her mother was ...
There's a famous photograph of Calvin Coolidge on the White House lawn wearing an Indian chief's headdress. Coolidge was a popular fella; he got away with it. Elon Musk, appearing last week in Wisconsin on the eve of that state's Supreme Court election, donned a cheese hat. He must have ...
Q. I鈥檓 freaking out. April鈥檚 coming, I鈥檓 nervous about PSSA tests. I hate them. They鈥檙e long. You can鈥檛 study for them, not really. And everything 鈥� I mean everything 鈥� rides on them. I want to go to college. My mom always tells me how proud she is of me. She didn鈥檛 get to go to ...
Author鈥檚 note: This column is a followup to last week鈥檚 Ask Mary Jo, where a father brought to my attention the toxic masculinity environment on some video gaming sites. After speaking with teens in our programs and at our Common Ground Teen Center, I concluded more research into the topic ...
