Here comes college!
Over the past couple of weeks there have been an increasing number of Facebook posts from my friends who can’t believe how quickly time has flown by. How they’re about to take their child off to...
View ArticleThe cost of parenthood
My family is priceless — literally. And so is yours. According to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, today’s kids cost an average of more than $241,000 — and that only gets you to age 18...
View ArticleFollow FDR’s parenting advice
I read a quote recently that was attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt: “We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” My guess is...
View ArticleA kid-free home
This past weekend marked a major milestone for my husband and me. There are no kids in our house. Of course, that’s happened before. When they were off at camp or sleeping over at a friend’s house. Or...
View ArticleEnjoying the rest of summer
Did you get in all of your fun before summer’s end? That question — and other takes on it — began to annoy my husband over this past Labor Day weekend. It’s not the end of summer — at least for us it’s...
View ArticleA case of bad timing
Like clockwork, the school calendar arrived every year in our mailbox the first week of classes. Before I would sit down and diligently go through it, transferring important events/information onto our...
View ArticleTime for an overhaul!
Like myself, I think most parents want to leave a better world behind for our kids and grandkids. Which is yet another reason why the recent events in Washington have me discouraged. I don’t generally...
View ArticleCell phone ‘progress?’
Do you ever wish you could turn back the clock to the days before cell phones? I sure do! OK, so they’re great for emergencies. And when we’re places where we can’t be connected to anyone any other...
View ArticleThe health care learning curve
Sometimes I wish my kids were still little. Parenting challenges, in my opinion, seem to grow as they age. Have your grown children learned to navigate their own health care, for example? And how is...
View ArticleLearning to budget — or not!
Sometimes I think the word budget has been stricken from the vocabulary of many teens and twenty-somethings. They struggle with the concept of making the $500 in their bank account last until such time...
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