There are 365 days per year. In the United States, students attend on average, 180 school days per year. Approximately 125 days are comprised of either weekends or holidays.

In today’s world, our children clearly have too much access to media and technology.  While we don’t know the full impact, we can say that ubiquitous access has created unrealistically high expectations on our children and an insatiable drive by many parents for their children to excel at everything!

We’ve heard it time and again—growing up is never easy. It can be filled with great joys as well as difficult experiences that shape a young persons’ life at a very early age.