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Parenting Pointers - When Your Child Learns Differently

Motherhood Moments

” publishing February 7 by Roger Stark and Betsy Hill focuses on benefits of building cognitive learning skills and the long-lasting ramifications of improving these skills for higher education, the 21st century workplace, and more. What is cognitive literacy and why is this the answer to our education crisis?

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Grandparenthood Can Be Expensive!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you are a parent, some day you will most likely become a grandparent. Being a grandparent is tons more fun than parenting. You get to enjoy all the cute moments and hand back the kid when they stink or act out! We spoiled our children and we apparently are even more intent on doing so with our grandchildren!

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Ways for Busy Parents to Teach Young Children About Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You want your kid to be financially savvy. But you are a super busy parent, with work, continuing education, business travel, your kid’s other activities, church and the myriad of other things that demand your time and attention. Kids this age can start to learn that we can get things by trading.

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Should You Accept Family Money?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When I was a young adult, out of college and into my first years of marriage, I cringed at the thought of getting money from my parents. Perhaps though, you are doing your parents a disservice by refusing their gifts. Lets explore the topic of parents giving money to grown offspring. I wanted to prove myself.

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Why Save Money in a Low Interest Rate Environment?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My grown kids are also savers and I have high hopes that the grandchildren will follow their example. Helping the parents teach my grandchildren to save is an ongoing project of mine. Trepidation about having the grand-kids open a savings account. This was part of my parent’s plan to turn me into a saver.

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Roth IRA Conversions? Better Wait and See.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If they are primary beneficiaries, the parents or guardians may have to go to court and get themselves designated as able to manage the account for the child. Education, threats of hauntings from beyond the grave and repeated instructions seem to be the most direct ways of handling this.

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How to Pick A Career

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

After 10 years raising kids, I decided to re-enter the workforce. Dr. John Krumboltz, Professor of Educational Psychology at Standford University studies how people choose careers. Parent’s are proud to say; My Son the Doctor or My Daughter the Astronaut. It didn’t. At the time we were substantially poor.