Friendships are the life blood of kids, especially teenagers. There comes a day when they will step over your dead body to get to a friend. Grace, my junior higher, is struggling with making friends at her new school. There’s something to be said about staying in one area all of your thirteen years. People know you. Friendships have time to … [Read more...]
Facebook 911
If Facebook were a country it would be the third most populated in the world. At 800 million users to date, it surpasses the number of people in both the United States and Russia combined—twice. If Facebook were my boyfriend, we would be the quintessential high school couple—since I've broken up with Facebook more times than I can count. I'm … [Read more...]
TV – What are you rooting for?
If there were background music set to my childhood years it would be the theme song to the Brady Bunch. Our TV was the seventh member of our family. Our favorite family show? Little House on the Prairie. What a great show. Sadly, these kinds of programs are tougher to find nowadays. Apparently, our appetite for entertainment now includes … [Read more...]
Teaching Kids Money Management – Guest Post
I was tucking my eight-year-old into bed one evening when the subject of his first car came up. (We're a boy-filled house, you see. We talk about cars, and dragons, and fire. A lot.) Anyway, he informed me that he would be buying his first car when he got to college. Oh, really? I asked. And how will you pay for it? I'll just write a … [Read more...]
Small Beginnings
When my daughter was thirteen she wrote a letter, sealed it and tucked it away. I thought that was pretty cool. “What are your plans for this letter, Meg?” “I’m not going to open it until my twenty-first birthday.” She smiled. It got me to thinking, as a mom, if I could go back in time, what words of wisdom would I want … [Read more...]
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