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Summer Plans at Family Balance Sheet

Family Balance Sheet

What will my kids do while I''m working from home or if I need to work at our business office? How can we encourage our soon-to-be second grader to keep up with her reading skills that she worked so hard on in first grade, but not feel like she''s in summer school? become a fan and ''like'' FBS on Facebook.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Most of us did not have air conditioned homes. People opened their windows and used attic fans or sat in metal lawn chairs outside to cool off. Our home was heated with a coal stove. There were no day care centers – women stayed home and raised the kids. Working from home usually meant selling stuff door to door.

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