Michelle Icard
Parenting author and educator
Michelle Icard writes about early adolescence for parents and has worked with families and teachers for over twenty years. She wrote Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen.
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About Michelle Icard
Michelle Icard has spent more than twenty years working with parents, children and teachers. She has created curriculum, books and programs to help them understand the early teen years. She has written three books: Middle School Makeover (2014), Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen (2021) and 8 Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success (2023). Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen offers parents scripts and advice for conversations before high school begins. Icard is part of the Today show's parenting team and has contributed to the Washington Post, Time, the Chicago Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor. She also developed a two-part leadership curriculum for middle schoolers, Athena's Path and Hero's Pursuit, which schools across the United States have used.