The squeaky wheel gets the grease, which is true for a number of situations.  Take a classroom, for example. Those students who act out, talk out, and disrupt others are constantly in need of teacher "grease" to get them back on track.  Finally, I&#…

I recently spent way too much time of Facebook talking parents off the math homework ledge. I'm sure you've seen these posts from time to time–the ones where they post of picture of a math problem and ask, "Can you believe what they want my kid t…