My Child Gives Up at the First Failure. Building Resilience
Names and identifying details of every student below have been changed. The eraser Ilya, ten, in the Pittsburgh suburbs, draws…
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How to Teach Your Child to Set Personal Boundaries
Names and identifying details of every student below have been changed. I’ve stood in a hallway telling a child to…
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Russian Language Levels Explained. A1 to C2 for Russian Specifically
Names and identifying details of every student here are changed, as they are everywhere on the blog. I once put…
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How AI Is Changing the Way We Learn Russian in 2026
Before any of this there was a cassette My first year teaching English in Russia, back in 2011, the technology…
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How to Pronounce Russian Words Correctly
Names and identifying details of every student here are changed, as they are everywhere on the blog. Two years of…
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Emotional Intelligence in Kids. What It Is and How to Build It
The child who can name every feeling and still gets it wrong Sasha is nine, lives in the Minneapolis suburbs,…
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My Child Is Always on Their Phone. Building Healthy Digital Habits
Names and identifying details of every student below have been changed. Seven days without the phone, and a mother in…
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Building Soft Skills in Bilingual Kids Living Abroad
Names and identifying details of every student below have been changed. Lev is eleven, lives outside Philadelphia, and once argued…
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How to Develop Critical Thinking in Children
Names and identifying details of every student here are changed, as they are everywhere on the blog. Stanford researchers gave…
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Best Ways to Study Russian at Home. A Structured Approach
Names and identifying details of every student here are changed, as they are everywhere on the blog. The version of…
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