Summer jobs help teach kids a lot of valuable life skills but with so many adults out of work is that really a solution for your family? Maybe.
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Fanning Parents’ Flames
Some days my gratitude list includes that fact that my parents were busy and overwhelmed learning how to take care of me – otherwise, they might have had time to find out that teen parents are destined to poverty and failure! Fortunately they didn’t know that. At the age of nineteen, they were married, full time university students – and parents. Whatever their plans had been until then, they now had responsibilities to take care of. Fortunately, their parents had taken the time to plant their…
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Failure or Future: It’s up to You (Re-play)
Failure isn't fatal. Resisting that innate parental urge to "make it all better" takes grit.