It’s late January, and you’re planning to take the IBLCE exam this April. Or, if you’re not planning to take the April IBLCE Exam, you can skip this post, but keep it in mind for the future. I promise I have non-exam posts coming next week! But assuming you are Read more…
A woman told us she had received our postcard listing the dates and locations for our live review course. Along with the rest of the day’s mail, she plopped the postcard onto the counter, and began making dinner. Soon, her husband found the card, walked over to the computer, and Read more…
Exhale. You met the November deadline to apply for the April version of the IBLCE exam. You just paid your whopping fee. (The amount you paid differs from first-timers to repeaters, and also, from country to country. Nevertheless, it’s a big chunk of change!) But if you’re thinking you can Read more…
What’s that? You see this picture and you’re thinking, “Is Marie the birthday girl?” Oh, no, much better than that! Waaaaaaay MUCH better than that! (More on that in a minute.) I can honestly say I have enjoyed every live course I’ve ever taught in the past 25 years or Read more…
Ah, yes. You know you need to start studying sometime, but how soon is “sometime”? You’re feeling fearful that if you start too soon, you’ll forget what you learned. And if you start too late, you might not be able to cram in everything you need to know. Good points. Read more…
OK, you may have struggled a bit at first. But by now you’ve developed a solid goal for yourself, with specific learning objectives. You’ve also devised a structured timeline for studying, and then reviewing for the IBLCE exam. You may have even rounded up a bunch of books, notebooks, and Read more…
We all want to stop procrastinating, but it’s tough. We all have some unpleasant task that we’d rather put off doing. Whether it’s in our personal or professional life, there’s a difficult, annoying, or thankless task that we simply must do. We say, “Oh, I’ll feel more like doing it Read more…
Is it time to decide between going through the effort of re-certifying or letting your IBCLC credential lapse? Have you been going back and forth between the two options, not sure what to do? Maybe you’ve been leaning against recertifying, figuring something like “I don’t really need my IBCLC credential anymore Read more…
If you’ve read this blog before, you may recognize this post as one that ran in April 2016. A server problem in December 2016 caused the loss of nearly all blog posts–and post comments–from that year. We’re re-posting this now, updated in April 2017, because the testing experience is a Read more…