August, 2022 | PulseonParenting

Are AP Courses Worth the Anxiety? Read Now and Decide

Take AP classes in subjects that interest you.

Aug 25 2022

AP Courses. College Classes. On my son’s orientation night, that’s all the high school principal could talk about. It was enough to make anyone’s head swim. On and on. Why? The hard sell made me suspicious, especially as I had a less-than-stellar experience with AP as a high school student. Which then made me wonder if much has changed with AP (Advanced Placement) in the last few decades. So are AP courses worth the anxiety? Read now and decide. My AP experience (and therefore, my bias) I went to a small midwest high school and was in an “honors” English…

Welcome to Auckland, the iconic Skytown the morning of our arrival.

Aug 18 2022

It’s COVID’s doing, I tell people when they ask why our family decided to move to New Zealand. My husband doesn’t agree because we’ve wanted to come Down Under for years. He’s not wrong, but as I see it, the upheaval COVID caused in our lives gave us pause, and got us to actually make the leap across the “other pond.” How the idea started In 2004 New Zealand was the dangling carrot, or truth be told, the duct tape to our gaping infertility wound. My husband and I decided that if our fourth round of IVF didn’t work, we…

Aug 11 2022

Think back to when you were a teenager, or younger. Who were your idols? And why? It can be embarrassing to think about so to break the ice, I’ll go first. When I was four, I idolized Mac Davis. He sang songs on a record my family owned, and I thought he was kinda cute in a cowboy hat. When I was eight, I idolized Bo and Luke Duke. Because they were cute (AND every other girl in school felt the same way). Also, they were constantly getting one over on the idiots who ran Hazzard County. When I was…

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Are AP Courses Worth the Anxiety? Read Now and Decide

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