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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Boys are a mess academically
A typical high school boy’s backpack is cloth-and-paper equivalent of what you see in the photo above, according to college counselors.
That’s according to a New York Times story that says professional counselors — the kind wealthy parents hire to help get their kids into to college — have realized they need to start with the basics with many boys. They help them organize their papers and build a system of filing and they keep on them. But after a while it tends to stick.
This story was No. 1 most emailed at NYTimes.com today. If you have boys, you may want to start now to get them organized. That’s becasue the No. 2 story on the Times best-read list is about disorganized adults who struggle to control clutter in their homes.
Maybe it’s best to try to address this problem with your kids now.
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