A single parent by choice, Toby Simon has raised a highly engaged and successful daughter. Her daughter Hattie held a fundraiser for victims of child slavery
at the age of 12, became a working jazz vocalist & musician at the age of 14, and at the age of 16 received both a national anti-tobacco advocacy award and
a national arts award for jazz performance. With a modest single parent income, Toby has tackled the same challenges that so many parents face ...how do
we help our kids gain all the opportunities they deserve to be engaged and successful in life, without the income to back it up? Toby teaches that it's not about
pushing our kids, but rather uncovering and coaching our kids' passions. She shows how to navigate resources to help them excel in school and life, access
unknown scholarships and financial aid, and finally, how to publicize their successes like a marketing pro!

Monday, June 17, 2013

Teens as International Citizens



My daughter Hattie left yesterday for a six week language exchange program in Morocco. As mentioned previously, the whole experience is courtesy of a full scholarship through The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) , a program sponsored by the U.S State Department.  Her group of about 15 students spend their first 2 days in New York for a pre-departure orientation at Columbia University, then they'll fly to Morocco where they will each live with an assigned host family for the 6 weeks and study Arabic at the  Qalam Wa Lawh Center for Arabic Studies for several hours every day. This is an awesome opportunity for any high school student interested in studying less commonly taught languages abroad. Hattie will be blogging about her adventures in North Africa at Hattie's Moroccan Summer. 

Her friends gave her a little surprise send-off party at the airport...

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