District Administration articles

View my articles from District Administration magazine, from September 2012 to present, here.

Psychology Today | Diagnosis: PANS

Imagine waking up one morning to find that your usually well-behaved child has undergone a radical personality change. Your once happy kid has suddenly developed extreme anxiety, a tendency toward hours-long emotional meltdowns, and an inability to write or concentrate in school. Read more…

Psychology Today | Families: The Parenting Trap

Mothers- and fathers-to-be often have similar ideas about how much responsibility each will take on when the baby arrives. But postpartum reality quickly veers away from the parents’ egalitarian expectations, reports a study in the Journal of Family Psychology. Mothers indicated that fathers were doing less work than they had expected, while fathers acknowledged that mothers were doing more. Read more…

Psychology Today | Bookshelf: The End of the Road

InGenius

By Tina Seelig

The Big Idea

Seelig, the director of entrepreneurship programs at Stanford, shares the exercises she uses to teach creativity to her students. Read more…

The Courier-Journal | Lance Armstrong

Many disappointed fans took off their yellow Livestrong bracelets after champion cyclist Lance Armstrong recently announced he was dropping his fight against allegations of drug use that always have lurked in the background of his career. Read more…

The Courier-Journal | Millennials at the mall

Once again, the outlook for America’s Millennial generation is far from ideal. Most people ages 18 to 29 who have jobs are underemployed and working in retail, according to a new study performed by the Generation Y research firm Millennial Branding in conjunction with PayScale, a company that collects compensation data. Read more…

The Courier-Journal | Boy Scouts’ rule on gays teaches wrong lesson

Greg Bourke was a beloved and respected Boy Scout leader for his son’s troop, widely recognized by Scouts, parents, fellow Scoutmasters and even religious figures as an excellent role model for young boys. Now, he has been forced to resign, simply because he is gay. Read more…