You're Looking for a Tutor. What Your Child Needs is a Life Coach.

We are living in a world of endless opportunity -- and yet, somehow, "enriched education" has come to mean a maelstrom of APs, SATs, GPAs and other one-dimensional measures of "intelligence."

Your child does not need a tutor in every subject. Your child needs an education expert to help them discover what they can do better than anyone else. Not only is this the best way to help them get into college (trust me: no admissions officer is going to be impressed by the number of APs your child took -- every other qualified applicant took just as many, maybe more). . . it is the best way to help them find success in the digital age.

My name is Eva, and that is exactly what I will do. After brainstorming with your child to find out about their unique talents and interests, I will help them explore and develop these talents into resilience and risk taking skills; creativity and curiosity; niche expertise; and an unforgettable journey.

To learn more about Paved With Verbs, check out my website (www.pavedwithverbs.com). Pay special attention to the Thoughts section. (http://www.pavedwithverbs.com/thoughts.html). You can also read a full article I wrote specifically about this topic on my blog, The Happy Talent (http://www.thehappytalent.com/blog/4-reasons-your-child-absolutely-does-not-need-a-tutor-but-they-could-use-a-life-coach). To summarize, life coaches foster independence, accountability and coping skills, and excessive tutoring fosters learned dependence, diffusion of responsibility and low confidence.

I look forward to getting started. Remember: the road to success is paved with verbs.

About Eva:

Eva attended Phillips Exeter Academy, an elite New England boarding school, before she began college at Stanford University. There, she completed her Bachelor's and Master's in Psychology. She also studied abroad at the University of Oxford, where she completed a tutorial on gifted education in public schools. This project left her keenly aware of the hardships that too many gifted teens experience in high school.

Since graduation, Eva has worked as a writer and content specialist. In addition to creating eBooks for companies like Intuit and Fisher Investments, she has published essays about high school and college education in Slate and The Huffington Post. Her essay about fostering creativity and curiosity in children was voted one of the best Quora posts of 2013.

Although she loves content creation, the work that Eva enjoys most has always been teaching gifted youth. It started with her dorm proctorship at Exeter in 2005, followed by a summer of fencing instruction and guitar lessons at Montecito Sequoia Lodge. She taught biology and geology at Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth, and took a group of ten American teenagers to Poland for a summer abroad through Experiment in International Living.