Coaching Your Kid to Success: Helping Tweens & Teens Score College, Career, & Life Skills

College and Career Ready! Schools say it. Media does, too. What do college and career ready mean? More important, how can parents coach champion kids? Experienced educator Kira Janene Holt explains how parents can prepare kids to be successful at school, work, and life. She believes learning can be fun for the entire family.

Being college, career, and life ready mixes academic and behavioral skills; it means students arrive to college or work with emotional, academic, and social maturity. Parents can coach their kids to peak performance as Holt reveals fields of play in terms of what colleges and workforce want.

Academic standards determine what is taught in public schools today. Holt describes what they are, what they mean, and how parents can help kids build winning plays. She shares websites where family teams can score life goals. Being college, career, and life ready requires more than academics. Behaviors that help people succeed are defined as soft skills and include time management, self-discipline, and working with others - traits of successful athletes. Holt defines and explores prize-winning behavioral skills, providing examples and resources, detailing coaching strategies to help kids develop playbooks for success.