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Parenting Pointers: Promoting Emotional Readiness for the Workplace

Motherhood Moments

A recent study by the Mary Christie Institute , in partnership with the Healthy Minds Network, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and the National Association of Colleges and Employers, asked young graduates (between 22 and 28) about their mental and emotional wellbeing. 43 percent suffered from anxiety.

Parenting 100
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Why I Don’t Use Credit Card Rewards Programs

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

An August 2013 issue of Daily Finance, in an article entitled Credit Card Debt Falling But Still Very High reported: “According to data from the Federal Reserve, as of July 2013, the average indebted household in the U.S. The hope is that you will not pay off the balance and will have to pay interest on that balance.

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Back to school shopping

Saving SAHM Sanity

Where I live school doesn't start until after Labor Day, but I know a lot of other states start as early as the middle of August, YIKES! This September I'll be a full time college student (taking all of four classes) My other half has also decided that he would like to go back to school and will be in college as well.

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Should Parents Pay For Good Grades?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

To me, it is normal and natural for a parent to want their child to do well – in school and in life. We rewarded our sons for good grades – through high school. My brother and I excelled in school, as did both of our sons. After all, isn’t the point to get your kids to work hard for the satisfaction of a job well done?

Parenting 210
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Smart Safety: Release Recovery Podcast

Motherhood Moments

It’s never been “easy” to send children off to college. Many of Release’s clients are students, and Clark’s own addiction progressed while he was a student—as he explains on a new podcast pulling back the curtain on the college experience and showing parents the real challenges and risks their teens are facing.

Podcasts 100
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Healthy Habits: The Mayo Lab Podcast with David Magee

Motherhood Moments

“The problem has never been a lack of information,” asserts Magee, a national recovery advocate and author of the upcoming book Things Have Changed: What Every Parent (and Educator) Should Know About the Student Mental Health and Substance Misuse Crisis (Matt Holt, August 2023, ISBN: 978-1-6377439-6-6, $22.00). It’s the opposite.

Podcasts 130
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The Best Time to Buy Anything During the Year – Details

Coupons Do Work

And back-to-school sales start creeping up this month (in Georgia, for some reason, some school start back on August 1st! — yes some counties in Georgia are backwards, I, as well wish they started end of August or start of September.). Stock up on these sales and freeze any extras. I stock up for an entire year.