Before I started college my dad took me to the bank to open my very first checking account. He put a couple hundred dollars in my account and after that I was on my own. I was responsible for a third of my university bill and any extras I wanted. Dad made it clear I […]
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Portable music and video players keep getting smaller and cooler! Best Buy is now carrying a new brand called Insignia which is all about affordable and well designed technology. We were given the opportunity to review the Insignia Kix 1GB MP3 […]
Have you ever had the pleasure of sitting in a classroom with 40 teenagers? It’s quite an experience.
My husband is a student at a local community college. Most of the students in his night classes are other thirty- and forty-year-olds. They are usually pretty quiet. They all understand the importance of being respectful to their […]
A couple days ago I was making lunch for the kids. I was throwing some fishsticks in to the oven when my eight-year-old daughter said, “I don’t want fishsticks. That’s fish. I’ll eat chicken, but not fish. Fish are pretty.”
Right then she reminded me of my childhood self. When I was a little girl I […]
Are you looking for ways to relate to and understand your tween or teenager? I ran across several posts this week I think may help you out.
More4kids has the top five tips for talking to your teens. If you’re looking for great advice on communicating (and being heard) with your teenager, this is it.
Barbara […]
Last night we were at a Middle School awards ceremony. They were recognizing the students who achieved perfect scores on their state standards of learning exams in 2007. The ceremony was short and sweet, but oh so inspiring. Why? Because it was incredibly obvious that the principal of the school and his staff TRULY care […]
Monday on Dr. Phil (yes, I admit it..I’m a closet Dr. Phil fan), Dr. Phil talked to a thirteen-year-old girl who was the victim of a prank by two fellow members of her cheer squad. Two girls she thought were her friends. During a sleepover, the two girls took a picture of thirteen-year-old, Kailey, while […]
I don’t know about you, but I am convinced my kids all have a case of the Winter Blahs right now. Everyone seems very unmotivated, unexcited, and under the weather. We are all battling minor colds, coughs, and general malaise - not enough to miss school over, but certainly enough to make the kids feel […]
As I was surfing the news sites today I came across an article about kids television viewing habits. Kids today are seeing things on TV I didn’t get to see until I turned 18 and could pay for my own movie ticket or TV. Ok, maybe not 18, but I definitely wasn’t watching any horror […]
Most every kid I know spent much of their toddler years snacking on Cheerios - after all, they were easy to pick up, almost impossible to choke on, and they were not very messy (and easy to sweep up). General Mills wants to keep our kids snacking on their famous Os by putting them into […]
Parenting Tweens & Teens. Been there, done that.
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