Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 16, 2015

She is soon to be 92 years old and uses her position as the family matriarch to teach the rest of us to be grateful. When she saw that her great-grandchildren were not writing thank you notes for her gifts to them, she sent their parents a set of Thank you note cards with envelopes and postage! She is spunky and outspoken.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Dr. John Krumboltz, Professor of Educational Psychology at Standford University studies how people choose careers. Summer jobs become permanent ones; family or friends pressure young people toward options that avoid temporary unemployment. I majored in Psychology (liberal arts), graduating in the early 70’s.

Psychology 100

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 22, 2015

For the drive, his parents allowed him to use his Kindle to read or play games. They have installed parental controls which restrict the times of day he can use the device as well as the time he can spend playing games vs reading books on it. In Psychology Today article Gray Matters: Too Much Screen Time Damages the Brain, Victoria L.

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