Published: Sunday, January 4, 2009
The new year is always a time for change.
This one is likely to bring greater challenges than ever with the financial world in chaos, employment tenuous, retirement suddenly uncertain, a new administration in the White House and a nation struggling to see its future.
Students of history know this isn't the first time we've been faced with such difficulty, and it won't be the last.
Gardens have always been Continue reading »
HENDERSON, Nev. — A world champion golfer lives with his family in a posh golf course community here, where a treasure of trophies and medals adorns his bedroom. Framed photographs on a nightstand capture him in midswing. An electronic putting green covers the living room floor.
Asked how many awards he had won, the champion smiled, revealing two missing front teeth.
“Um, a lot?” he said with a giggle.
Trading cards show his Continue reading »
Brad Pitt Gushes About Kids, Falling in Love With Angelina
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Brad Pitt is learning a thing or two from his partner Angelina Jolie and their six kids, like how to use an iPod correctly.
"They're so beyond me in technology, it's hard to keep up,” he tells Rolling Stone. “Our seven-year-old was searching the word 'weapons' on Google the other day and ended up on some white-supremacist site. I'm sure now we're Continue reading »
Instead, use this time to teach the basics, especially how to save. If one thing is clear in this confusing economic crisis, it's that those who have a savings cushion are in a much better position to weather the storm than those who are overextended and have nothing to fall back on.
There is a lot of talk these days of requiring schools to teach personal finance. It sounds good, but the evidence so far suggests that classes tend not to work.
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More than 500 parents responded to the site's poll on how their kids
access the Internet. Most parents, (77%) reported having a conversation with
their children about online safety, but a significant number (75%) reported
that their child accesses the Internet without supervision. Responses were
gathered from current Glubble users and visitors to HighlightsParents.com, a
web site of Highlights for Children that provides family activities and Continue reading »
Personal finance isn't a topic you can rely on schools to teach. That's why it's important for parents to teach their children well. You're kidding yourself if you think that learning about money is just a matter of a few basic math principles; your children pick up far more subtle and powerful messages by watching and listening to you.
• Be happy to go to work.
Transitions for little ones are hard, and the prospect of losing you to work Continue reading »