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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

For 20 or so years I’ve been homeschooling my kids, and am now down to about 1 1/2 (one full-time homeschooler, and one doing College Credit Plus with some support). We also want to get our kids through college without them having loans to pay back, and we are 1 out of 4 on that so far!

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Music Minute: JD Shelburne - Away in a Manger

Motherhood Moments

It is one of my all-time favorite songs and one I’ve known since I was a kid. Shelburne chose to release this as his first single for the holidays as a symbolic memory of growing up in Taylorsville, Kentucky on his family farm, where the house was filled with love. When JD was 19, he found a guitar after the death of his grandmother.

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Grandparenthood Can Be Expensive!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You get to enjoy all the cute moments and hand back the kid when they stink or act out! Boomers claim to have redefined many aspects of life – from open family dialoge to ways to influence politics, now are they redefining grandparenthood? My parents were somewhat more interactive with their grandchildren (my kids).

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My Story on How to Successfully Take Courses While Working Full Time

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Here is a little history: Ever since I was a little kid I have had a keen interest in medicine. I guess part of it came naturally as both my mother and grandmother worked in the medical field at the time. In Grade 12 I received a scholarship for the college that offered this program. I was hooked on medicine.

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Generation Now's First Round of Commissions

Motherhood Moments

She has taught at Columbia, NYU, and MIT and is currently on the faculty at Purchase College. What we love about Dustin's proposal is that he has created an entire world that is wholly real and ethereal, weaving the struggle of identity and bullying in a Comanche girl's day-to-day life with the connection to her grandmother who has passed on.

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Shoe Fly Cake

Family Balance Sheet

My grandmother always made it for me because she knew how much I loved it. She sent it along every time I left for college and she makes it for me for my birthday every year. Portion control.who am I kidding, I ate 3 as soon as the cooled down. I grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch country where Shoe-Fly Pie is a specialty.

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Tips to Keep Teens Safe Online

Saving With Shellie

Letting kids have unsupervised time online can be scary for parents. When kids are little it’s easy to monitor them with parental controls and kid-safe web browsers. But what do you do when your kids hit their teens? Sit down with your kids and have a talk. No devices during family meals.