Yusuf Olawale Idris 
A lot of people have been asking how to repost on TikTok. If you are one of such people, you will learn how to do that in this blog post. Reposting and removing reposts on TikTok is one of the easiest things to do aside from liking and commenting on videos. Some common questions people … Read more
Articles by Marina Koestler Ruben WASHINGTON CITY PAPER “Middle Kingdom Meets Elementary School”: Cover story about Washington Yu Ying, D.C.’s first public charter school for Chinese language immersion – read article “Hire Education: Money Is No Object When You’re Tutoring Potomac’s Prodigies”: Cover story about tutoring in Potomac, Maryland – read article SMITHSONIAN.COM “The Rain in Spain … Read more
Investing can be a great way to grow your wealth and achieve financial stability. But with so many investment options available, it can be difficult to know which one is right for you. Before you invest, it’s important to ask yourself some key questions to make sure you’re making a sound decision. In this blog, … Read more
In March 2010, the New York Times printed an article about “The Streak,” a 3,218-night tradition: Jim Brozina, a children’s librarian, read aloud to his daughter Kristen every night, starting when she was in fourth grade and going through her first night of college. Kristen–now going by her lit-inspired middle names, Alice Ozma–has written a memoir, The Reading Promise. I expected a … Read more
Earlier this week, I read Bossypants, Tina Fey’s memoir-style humor book. Knowing that Fey has a young daughter, I wanted to see if she’d say anything relevant to the parent-tutor mindset. She did, but not where I expected. Fey wrote about mothering, but of greater value were her thoughts on improvisational comedy: [The rule] of improvisation is … Read more
Through the BzzAgent program, I’ve been getting free Kindle copies of publications by The Domino Project. Most recently, I received Read This Before Our Next Meeting: The modern meeting standard for successful organizations by Al Pittampalli. (Anyone can download the digital edition for free until Tuesday, August 9.) The gist of the book is that meetings often hinder rather than help; Pittampalli describes … Read more
A How to Tutor blog reader (and mother of four), Sarah Lake, sent me this comment: I really love the way that you encourage parents to capitalize on teachable moments. I have spent years thinking that teaching my kids needs to be a formal affair, but that’s far from true! Such a nice reminder, as much of our education comes … Read more
As part of my quest to learn about individual families’ homeschooling experiences, I read The Duggars: 20 and Counting! Raising One of America’s Largest Families–How They Do It, by Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar. In case you’re trying to reconcile this blog post’s title with the book’s, the “20” refers to Michelle, Jim Bob, and the 18 J-name* children … Read more
This weekend, I perused a review copy of Suddenly Homeschooling: A Quick-Start Guide to Legally Homeschool in 2 Weeks, by Marie-Claire Moreau, Ed.D. This guide provides a 14-day plan for parents who need to prepare to homeschool very quickly–intended for a child who had to leave school unexpectedly, for example due to health, social, academic, or emotional reasons. … Read more
I recently attended the open house of a DC-area playgroup based on the Reggio Emilia method, an educational approach for young children that developed in Italy after World War II. At the open house, the playgroup’s founder emphasized the importance of a child’s “third teacher,” his or her environment. (The first and second teachers are parents … Read more
