ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — The nation's economic troubles play out one family at a time at the New Horizons Learning Center in this struggling city two hours northwest of Chicago.
Some parents have been laid off and must pull their children out of the day care center until they can find a job. Others' employment hours have been cut, so they reduce their kids' attendance to a few days a week.
Financial strains prompt one mother to pay with a Continue reading »
The June death of a 12-year-old girl run over as she bicycled home from San Jose's Hoover Middle School horrified Michelle Takeuchi. Her 10-year-old son bikes to and from Los Alamitos Elementary in Almaden, where a single pair of police crossing guards guides kids through a daily crush of cars.
"What I saw around my school, the parents dropping off and picking up their children, it's just so dangerous," Takeuchi said. Like many parents, she would 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 »