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New York City is a place where we often live in public. As educational and parenting specialists, we hope that our own children (and our clients' children) are living, on balance, in a healthy and supportive environment. But what to do when parenting advice comes unbidden from strangers on the streets of pedestrian-friendly Manhattan or Brooklyn?
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As NYC parents ourselves, as well as professional educators, we think we can bring useful perspective to bear on some of the challenges of raising children in the city. Part of our educational philosophy is that as parents and educators we are really never off the clock; for good or bad, we're always modeling the behavior and ways of thinking that our children and students will internalize. This gets all the harder when, as we discuss here, we're talking about and reacting to the kinds of things we normally want to shield our children from, like death.
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Sometimes, the resources and attractions we enjoy in NYC are so abundant that we can almost forget about some of the most fundamental. So it goes, from the perspective of a family in Manhattan or some of the neighborhoods in northern Brooklyn, when it comes to Coney Island. As parents of New York children ourselves, we at PwP are often on the lookout for ways to spend a day that hold back the forces of TV, Facebook, and iPhones.
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Many of our expert tutors, educational counselors, and test prep specialists are also themselves parents navigating life with children in New York City. We think the combination of these two perspectives often results in helpful insights into both. For instance, in this brief vignette, we note how spontaneous learning can be for your students when we try simply to foster the right environment and the right attitude toward education.
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