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The Sunday Sync: A 25-Minute Weekly Meeting for Parents and Teens

Many families only talk about school when something goes wrong. The Sunday Sync moves those conversations into one short, predictable weekly meeting, so grades, goals, and deadlines stay out of the rest of the week.

The Sunday Sync Quick Reference Card puts the whole agenda on one page. It runs about 25 minutes.

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How to Talk With Your Teen About College: Conversation Guides for Every Situation

College talk has a way of turning into an argument. A parent asks about grades, a teen shuts down, and everyone ends up more stressed than when they started.

The Conversation Guides give you a structure and words to start from. They’re part of the Family Operating System in the Guided Ambition Lab, my college planning program for families, and they cover both the routine conversations and the hard ones.

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The Depths & Domains of Practice: Help Your Teen Grow and Grow Alongside Them.

When I first taught myself about college admissions, I was worried that I was just going to have to learn about all the meaningless hoops students need to jump through to build competitive applications. I was worried that the work of building a competitive college admissions profile would be at odds with the more important work of self-discovery and exploration.

The reason I stayed in this work, the reason I actually love this work, is because I realized that wasn't true.

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Parent-Teen College Planning Agreement (Free Template)

I like to think of the Partnership Agreement as the constitutional foundation of the Guided Ambition Lab. It's the thing we need to agree to first before we can move forward with the strategies that this program recommends. Those strategies can be customized and adjusted for every family. But for this program to work, we need to agree to these principles first.

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