There’s a funny thing about kids’ birthday parties. You can spend three hours agonizing over the perfect dinosaur theme (let alone any theme to be honest), order custom balloons, match every napkin to the cupcake frosting, and still... It’s the moment someone accidentally trips into the gift table that gets talked about for months. While that sounds like a scene from a bad movie, some sort of ...
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Money Lessons That Matter – 10 Tips for Preparing Your College Kids Financially
College isn’t just textbooks, lectures, and exams. Somewhere between orientation week and their final semester, your college kids will learn a different kind of curriculum—one not found in the course catalog. It’s the unspoken syllabus on how to manage their money without losing their minds, and these are some of the most important lessons they can learn. Here's a financial toolkit to help ...
Ideas For Quality Time With Your Family
As our kids have gotten older, it has become harder to have consistent quality time with our family. Sports and school schedules, summer jobs, and social activities keep our kids going from dawn to dusk. And we are still carting some of them from place to place, too. We run year 'round. Still, spending quality time with your family is vital in so many ways. It’s a way to grow a stronger bond ...
8 Ways to Keep Your Kids Active and Engaged This Summer
Summer often proves to be a wonderful time of year to enjoy the sunshine and get outside, as well as to enjoy the time you have indoors on days when it’s not so sunny, but let's face it: school is barely over before you begin to hear the summer chorus. "I'm bored." On repeat all day long. So if you’re struggling to know exactly what to do with your kids to keep them active and engaged ...