You guys are competing with your own people… and you’re teaching that to your kids. But the truth is: your only real competition is the person staring back at you in the mirror. If you’re better than that person from yesterday, you’re winning. If you’re asking the right questions and growing every day, you’re winning. Stop competing with other people — because that’s exactly what your kids will copy. And later, those same kids will grow up anxious, depressed, insecure… trying to keep up with eve

When do you actually use a comma with and? Today’s 7th and 8th grade English lesson dives into coordinating conjunctions—better known as FANBOYS—and clears up one of the biggest writing mistakes I see: adding a comma before and when you don’t need one. I show my students how and can connect two verbs, two adjectives, or two nouns, and why a comma is only necessary when it links two complete sentences. Once you understand FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So), it becomes much easier to spot t