Teaching Your Kids About...

“89% of all teens say they plan to work this summer,” according to Junior Achievement, an organization that helps teens get ready to enter the workforce.
“As unemployed adults scramble for jobs that typically go to young people, this will be the toughest summer in 25 years for teens to find work,” says Dr. Gad Levanon, [...]

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“If you have an artistic, creative child, don’t send him to a summer camp for jocks,” says Dale Atkins, author of “I’m OK, You’re My Parents.”
That seems pretty logical, but are there other things you might want to consider when sending your middle school children off to camp?

Do some in-depth research about any camp you [...]

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In today’s society we’ve been letting our kids slide on earning the money they get. Many parents give their kids whatever they want, plus an allowance. Preparing our children for adulthood is our job as parents. Here’s an e-mail I received from Jim Fay, co-founder of the Love and Logic Institute in [...]

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“The number of drowning fatalities of children younger than five in swimming pools and spas has increased to a yearly average of 283 for the years 2003 to 2005 from a yearly average of 267 for the years 2002 to 2004, according to a report released Wednesday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Most of [...]

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