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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Travel Safety for Families
Memorial Day Weekend and the unofficial start of summer is around the corner. While some are scouring local papers for fun and interesting stay-cation options, others are planning to hit the road…or even “the friendly skies.” Even though we don’t like to think about it, it can be pretty stressful when things go wrong when we are far from home; a little pre-planning can sometimes help parents find just the right balance between “adventure” and “safety.” [Tweet “Planning can help parents find the right balance between…
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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…