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College Bribery: A Weak Signal from the Future?
The behavior of parents with so little faith in their children they resorted to bribery is reprehensible, but the crime is a weak signal from the future.
Kids, Families, and the Soundscape of Anger: What We Can Do
Is the steady noise of angry argument causing young people to feel powerless? How can they escape? Where can they go and what do they do to protect themselves from an angry world that shows no sign of letting up?
Elvis Presley’s Tears
Financial education is not just about the money; it’s about raising good kids–happy and accountable.
One Family’s Response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Shooting
Over dinner Isabelle explained her plan to her parents. “I want to make impact, not just a poster.”
What Does it Take for a 21st Century Family to Thrive?
It use to be you’d coach a child to look into hotel management (maybe Cornell?); engineering (MIT or Georgia Tech?); or a business degree (Babson or the Univ. of Texas perhaps?). Now the work of the future is about fusion, cross discipline understanding, and relationships with artificial intelligence systems that will make many of formerly sci-fi inventions possible.
Fly Fishing and Financial Education; An Update.
As I use to tell it families tended to break into one of two camps: either you were a family who applied the fly fishing metaphor to money and kids; or you were other kind, the family that thought there was just one way for a child to learn. Usually I know better than to think in such stark, simplistic terms—but I’m flawed. Finally, as you will see, a story came along that reminded me of my error—and heartened me.