Just overheard: My 6 year old says to his 10 year old brother, “I think Mom went overboard with Michaela.” (Michaela’s my 1 year old daughter.) “Why?” “Because she’s just so super cute!” I don’t know how much it has to do with me, but I agree she is super cute! Continue reading Going Overboard
February’s issue of Black Enterprise Magazine has a great list of websites about helping kids learn financial management that I thought I’d share: http://www.myownbizkit.com This Website offers business opportunities to parents and their children who are highly motivated and interested in learning about entrepreneurship. http://www.youthventure.org This Website helps young people across the country start youth-led organizations that achieve a lasting benefit for their schools and … Continue reading Websites about money management for kids
Recently my grandfather passed away and we went down to Chicago for the wake and funeral and such. My mother reported to me that at the wake one of my uncles asked my six year old, Collin, what grade he was in. Collin promptly replied, “I’m in first grade, but I don’t go to school. I homeschool.” “Oh you do!” “Yeah, but most days we … Continue reading "Mostly I just get to play a lot"
Recently my grandfather passed away and we went down to Chicago for the wake and funeral and such. My mother reported to me that at the wake one of my uncles asked my six year old, Collin, what grade he was in. Collin promptly replied, “I’m in first grade, but I don’t go to school. I homeschool.” “Oh you do!” “Yeah, but most days we … Continue reading “Mostly I just get to play a lot”
Perhaps some tides are changing. This article about a childcare guru in Great Britain changing his mind in favor of keeping young children in their parent’s care is nice to see. Apparently the fact that babies need loving interaction with the same people who will see them through adulthood and the aggressiveness and behavior problems of those children deprived of such care finally got to … Continue reading A childcare guru in Britain comes to his senses
The Upside Down World 