School Search Holiday Gift Guide
Our 2019 Gift Guide and Must-Haves for everyone involved in the school selection process.
Your Child’s Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers by Jennifer Fox
Amazon, $13
Break out your highlighter. This is one of those books where you’ll be tempted to cover entire pages in yellow. Brilliant educator Jennifer Fox argues agains the paradigm that “fixing” kids’ weakness is the route to success.
StrengthsFinder 2.0
Amazon, $12
Huffington Post just deemed self-awareness “the single most important skill [one] can acquire.” Lead your children into this next season rooted in a greater understanding of your own natural talents. Stop devoting your efforts to “fixing” your shortcomings. It’s time to develop your strengths.
TABLETOPICS Family: Questions to Start Great Conversations
Amazon, $25
Named one of Oprah’s favorite things, this cube stores 135 age-appropriate questions specifically designed to engage kids in the art of conversation. Whether you pull them out in morning carpool or over the dinner table, you’l learn something new about your kids—and even yourself.
Love Does: For Kids, Bob Goff
Amazon, $11
The coziest read for your littles. Discover how to put action behind our love to create lives that are exciting, daring, and fun. You and your kiddos will be inspired to make a difference.
Warmest Wishes Cocoa Gift Set
Antropologie, $36
The coziest way to say “thanks” to your child’s current teacher—for writing letters of reference and partnering with your family along the way.
Monthly Massage Subscription
Zeel, $99/month
The school admissions season can be stressful. Unwind with a flexible membership of monthly massages anywhere—at your home, hotel, or office (bonus: Zeel offers a roll over)!
Crane & Co. Engraved Elephant Platinum Bordered Cards
Swoozies, $24
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” -Randy Pausch. Model gratitude and send off sincere letters of thanks to everyone on your child’s personal advisory board this season—teachers, admission directors, counselors, and tutors. We love this engraved elephant set from Swoozie’s—a nod to our partnerships in Uganda.
Haute Papier Letterpress Notes & Enclosures Design 26
Swoozies, $52
The most darling colors and patterns your daughter is certain to love! Encourage your girls to send a thank-you to her teacher, tutor, admissions director/interviewer, and/or student ambassador.
Exclusively Yours Correspondence Cards
Swoozie’s, $7
Get your sons in the game! Swoozie’s offers a line of correspondence cards with more masculine undertones, colors, and patterns. Encourage your son to send thank-you cards to teachers who wrote letters of recommendations, any tutor that helped with test prep, and the admissions directors and student ambassadors who led school tours.
The School of Life Existentialist Notebook Set
Anthropologie, $20
An intentional London-based line dedicated to helping kids and adults alike develop emotional intelligence. This set is an introduction to three great existential thinkers—Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sarte—with plenty of blank space to jot down your own thoughts and musings during school tours, meetings, interviews, and consultations.
Donation of a Backpack Filled with School Supplies
Thrive Global Project, $15
What’s better than a gift that gives back? Consider sending a backpack to a vulnerable student during this holiday season. After all, giving back is woven into the fabric of life.