It’s summer! I enjoy having my children home, but when they become teenagers, summer time equals money making time for them. They use this money to fill up their savings accounts and pay for extra curriculars throughout the school year. But more than that, I feel it’s also vital for them to learn marketable skills that will one day be…
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Can I make a confession? I yell at my kids sometimes. I’ve never taken them to Disneyland. Often, my house is a wreck. At one son’s last baseball game, he had to play outfield instead of his normal first base, because he missed two practices in a row–because I forgot to take him. My teenage son often doesn’t like me….
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When I heard that the story of a woman who was a Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life activist was coming to the big screen, I was intrigued. Soon after, I learned that the movie was unexpectedly rated R- purely for abortion violence. I was even more intrigued. This meant that teenagers who were able to legally have…
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Losing stinks. Especially when you put your heart and soul into something and it seems like something unfair happened to make you lose. How do we help our kids through this? My robotics team recently went through this. We worked our guts out. First, we raised about $20,000 for our 9 month season. That’s a tall order for teenagers! They…
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Do you have a child who seems “unreachable”? Jennifer Zumbiel is an expert at this and she shares some of her best tips!
