Summer Matters Inspiring confident, kind kids & forever friendships Anyone on this list with a kid in a New Jersey public school probably got a very similar email this summer. It’s from their district, and it’s about phones. The Garden State signed a phone ban into law for every K-12 public school kid, joining a bunch of other states already doing this. The shorthand people are using is bell-to-bell. Phones away from the first bell ring of the day to the last one, starting this school year....

Summer Matters Inspiring confident, kind kids & forever friendships For the last stretch of the summer, if you went up to The Woods during an activity period, just about everything was running. Pickleball. The Ropes Course. Archery. Fort building. One activity was missing for a little bit though. The slingshots. Why? The dads broke them at Visiting Day. I think that’s awesome. I’m being serious. We bought more. All good. So why would we be cool, even excited, about something at camp breaking...

Summer Matters Inspiring confident, kind kids & forever friendships You probably know this, but public speaking ranks at or near the top of basically every fear survey. Scarier than heights. Scarier than spiders. In some surveys, scarier than death. Now, I don’t think anyone hanging off the side of a cliff is thinking, “Nice, at least I’m not public speaking right now.” But that it’s even in the same discussion tells you how much people totally hate it. Standing up in front of people is...