How to Negotiate the Best Deal on a College Education
It's a topic that will significantly impact both your child and your bank account: how to negotiate the best deal on a college education. Most parents take this subject lightly, and figure whatever the schools end up offering them is the best that they will get....
Get Your Kids Moving with Kid Fit
If you're a long-time reader of this blog, you know that I have spent many an hour fretting-and writing-about how much time the boys spend in front of screens. We've reached a rather uneasy peace over the years; the boys leave them off until 2pm and they participate...
Teaching to Give
There’s an old joke about how a two-year-old views the world: If I’m playing with it, it’s mine. If I set it down and you pick it up, it’s mine. If you walk into the room with it and I like it, it’s mine. And so on. Because this mine-mine-mine mentality seems so...
Motivate Your High School Kids to be Interested in College
Going away to college involves moving to a new city, leaving friends and family members behind, entering a new and challenging environment, trying to make new friends, and dealing with coursework that is much more difficult than that of high school. It's no wonder...
Smartphone Use: Parents and Kids Have Much in Common
Even though the older boys are 14, they've had rather an adolescent...horror of having anything in common with good ol' mom and dad for years. So I regard the following infographic about smartphone use with some amusement. Turns out kids and adults can have behaviors...
Refuse to Choose
Because I’m an advocate for increased emphasis on academics, there are some groups that try to drag me into their “sports get too much attention” message. While I might agree with the basic tenet of their argument, there are three reasons why I won’t get caught up in...
What I Learned about Using a Humidifier to Ease my Asthma Symptoms
I grew up with asthma. Bad asthma. When I was younger, my teachers had to carry my inhaler for me while I played at recess, just in case. I kept it behind the bench during basketball games, and had to tug on my jersey so my coach knew when I couldn't breathe. I’m...
How to Know When a Child Is Ready for a Personal Computer
Every generation of parents has challenges that come with raising a responsible child in a modern society. The Internet and mobile devices have raised new challenges for parents bringing up children in a wired world. On one hand, it’s understandable that parents want...
4 Fun Meals to Get Children Excited About Healthy Eating
Getting children excited about healthy eating can be one of the hardest challenges for parents! Some children (no matter how hard you try) just don’t like healthy food and turn their noses up at even the freshest fruit and vegetables. There are some tricks to getting...
Parents Beware: Understand Academic Doping and Protect Your Children
So, it turns out that young people are abusing the prescription drug Adderall to help themselves manage the workload in school. I had no idea! The dangers are real, as the infographic below will show you. One of the scariest parts for me as a mom is the fact that...