A Map of the Series

Last week, I found myself sitting across from a young founder, passionate and full of ideas but visibly anxious about the road ahead. It reminded me of a con...

Play Is the Work

I've been thinking a lot about play lately. Not just as a recreational activity but as a fundamental way of learning and engaging with the world. It's a conv...

Questions Parents Actually Ask

I've been reflecting on the kinds of questions parents bring to me, both in my clinic and in my role as an angel investor in educational ventures. These ques...

Teenagers, Phones, and the Secret Curriculum

I've been thinking a lot about teenagers and their phones lately. It strikes me how, by the time most Indian children reach the age of fourteen, they're livi...

Language, English, and the House You Actually Live In

I remember a young patient’s father who came to my clinic, not for fertility advice, but for a worry that seemed to weigh on him just as heavily. He was anxi...

The Years Before the Timetable

I've been thinking a lot about the years before the timetable takes over our children's lives, a period often overshadowed by the anxiety of parental expectat...

What to Stop, What to Start

I've been thinking a lot about what we need to stop and start, particularly in the context of education and parenting. Last week, I found myself in a convers...

Letters You Can Send

I've always found that the simplest gestures can often carry the deepest meaning. I have written a few letters recently, not to be sent in the traditional se...

Facing Boards Without Surrendering the Child

I've been thinking about the pressure we inadvertently pile onto our children during their board years. Last week, a parent came to me, visibly stressed, ask...

A Week You Can Actually Live

I was in the midst of a particularly hectic day at the clinic last week when it struck me: the way we live our weeks is fundamentally flawed. It's a sensatio...