“Teaching children about money is not teaching about greed or teaching them to become soulless, grasping little Ebenezer scrooges,” author Neale S. Godfrey writes. “Money is about values, about…
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The jutting chin. The inscrutable eyes. The shock of unkempt hair. It’s all there in the alabaster bust of Ludwig von Beethoven sitting just outside the door to the violin…
When my husband was seventeen, he spent a summer working construction with a bunch of men twice his age. Making much more than minimum wage, he kept his mouth shut…
Q: Several days ago. my son, 11, stayed home from school because of illness and I had to take a day off from work to stay with him. I found…
My older daughter was toiling over an English assignment last year. It was an essay titled “Precious Moments.” Why, I wonder, is she having trouble coming up with a few…
When your kids were young, did you ever wonder if they would grow up to love books and reading?
by Lynne Kenney PsyD The Family Coach, author of The Family Coach Method www.lynnekenney.com Extraordinary…boy, isn’t that a nice word? Beyond the ordinary…transcending the mundane….unexpected and astonishing. Is this possible?…
“The one really positive message I got from my mom and dad was that anything you want to do, you could do… The harder you work, the more talented you…
June is here! The end of school is nigh! Run for your lives! OK, maybe that’s my take on summer break. Maybe you actually look forward to mosquito-bitten days of…
When my daughter was four months old, my mother asked when I would turn her rear-facing car seat around so she could be “more entertained and less prone to suffer…
Q : Our desktop computer is in a family-access area. Now my 12-year-old has inherited a laptop, which she has started taking to her bedroom. How should we go about…
I’ve had See Jane Win by Dr. Sylvia Rimm on my bookshelf for well over a year. Having just finished blogging about Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,…
