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Tight Holiday Budget? Teaching Children About Money
Setting a holiday budget can be quite a challenge, especially when money is tight enough the rest of the year. And just when you have laid it all out—cutting back on the cost of the traditional family feast with coupons and making the decision to drive to your parents instead of flying—one of your children […]
Chores: How to Make Them Get Done
Do you remember when your children were two or three years old, and all they wanted to do was help you with the housework? Whether you were mopping the floor, cooking dinner, scrubbing the toilet or folding laundry, you had a little one wanting to be a helper. You might have accepted the help or […]
How Parenting Is Like Saving Money
We know that you love your children dearly, but being a parent can be hard work! As I was going through my expenses this month it got me thinking about how parenting is a lot like saving money. So just for fun, I put together a list of how the two are a lot alike. […]
When to Leave Kids Home Alone?
It’s a rite of passage: finally being deemed old enough to stay home alone. It’s also a rite of passage of sorts for parents, who need to swallow their anxiety the first time they drive away from the house with their child inside, without an adult to care for him. At 11 and 9, my […]
Kids and Cellphones When do you want them to have one?
My son is about to start middle school in the fall. Instead of taking the bus as he did in elementary school, he’ll be riding his bike about a mile each way. Although we haven’t had a need for it yet, my husband and I are considering getting him a cellphone.
When is the right time […]
Allowances for Children Family Money Matters
As kids get bigger, so do their desires, and it gets harder and harder to distract them from what they want. When my daughter was three, for example, she might have pointed at a Barbie doll in the store, but I could easily divert her attention to the colorful construction paper we had gone out […]
Ice Skating with three kids… alone
There are certain things I never saw myself doing with three kids alone… ice skating was certainly one of them. First of all, we are from Florida. Not much of a calling for ice skating adventures here in South Florida. If you want to partake, you really have to go out of your way to […]
How to Save Money When Dining Out
Most of us strive to serve home-cooked dinners to our families, but sometimes it’s nice to go out for a meal. Some families do this regularly, and others wait for special occasions. One thing is for sure, though: Restaurant meals are usually exponentially more expensive than what you would pay to purchase and prepare the […]
One Day Without Shoes 2013 @TOMS
One Day Without Shoes 2013 is on Tuesday April 16th! Join us as we go without shoes so kids don’t have to. You too can participate in One Day Without Shoes. What does that mean? Well, One Day Without Shoes is a project started to raise awareness of the impact a pair of shoes can […]
Baby Names: Choosing the Perfect One for Your Baby
When you’re pregnant, you hear a lot of questions. “When are you due?” “Do you know if it’s a boy or a girl?” “Where are you delivering?” Probably one of the most asked, though, is “have you picked out names yet?” Some parents-to-be share their chosen names with the world, and others keep it mum […]
