What Every Parent Needs to Know About College Admissionsetn
“This is the go-to guide for students to find the right path, at the right time, for the right tuition amount to lead to their best career outcome. Implementing Individualized Career and Academic Planning in middle and high school helps identify interesting, high-paying careers in growth fields. Barnes' book is the first available for parents and students to plan for a successful future.”
―Anna Costaras and Gail Liss, authors of The College Bound Organizer and the forthcoming The College Bound Planner
- Step by step planner
- "Best" College planning
- High Schooler profiles
- 300 Career qualifications
Paranoid Parents Guide Series
What Did You Worry About Today? Chances Are, You Didn't Need to . . .Paranoid Parents take heart: You're not alone in your sleepless nights. When surveyed by Paranoid Parents founder Christie Barnes, 75 percent of moms and dads said they worried about "everything" when it came to their kids. T In our fear-based culture that makes us over-buy, over-protect, and over-parent in an effort to keep our kids safe, Christie Barnes knows the truth: Most parents are wasting their time worrying about the wrong things
- Paranoid Parents Guide: Troubled Teens
- Paranoid Parents Guide: Sports
- Paranoid Parents Guide: Hollywood Fast Track
- Paranoid Parents Guide: 10 Anniversary Edition
Events
Barnes speaks at national education conventions and to small PTA groups as well. She has testified to the US Congress at a weeklong Washington Symposium on Career education in high school and college. Topics include:
- Finding the best college
- Writing your own Golden Ticket to a high salary job
- What Parents Should Really Worry About
- Reduce Student Anxiety
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Media Appearances
Christie Barnes has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, the Readers Digest, ForbeslNPR and ABC News and TV, news blogs and podcasts and newspapers across the country.
- Forbes on career planning
- Readers Digest w Dr Fauci
- New York Times on parent worry
- ABC News on child dangers
Upcoming: Paranoid Parents Guide 10th Anniversary2024 Edition
Some worries never change; some real dangers do change.
Barnes revisits todays top worries parents have and compares them to dangers kids and teens really face in this post Covid world.
- Coping with Covid Education loss
- Student Anxiety
- Dangers parents forget to worry about
- Dangers parents CAN forget about 9
Paranoid Parents Guide: Hollywood Fast Track
Entertainment is a huge employer in the US, one of its biggest exports. So, your kid wants to be a star, movies, TV, internet, gaming. Theatre builds confidence, empathy, memory, logic--but when and how is "Hollywood" the right move. Is there a career path?
- Is an acting degree essential?
- the Entertainment career
- A summer in Hollywood
- TV acting is different than theatre acting