Children learn about money, especially young children, by observing what their parents and other respected adults in their lives do.  The information the soak up in watching us with our money will greatly impact their own opinions of money down the road.  Whether they are spenders or savers, logical with money or irrational with it [Read the rest]

Maya is currently in a love affair with a new book.  It is by far her favorite book right now.  She reads it at least a dozen times a day and it is always one of the books she picks for our before bed story time.  The book is the Dr. Seuss classic, Green Eggs [Read the rest]

One of my very favorite things to do is to curl up somewhere comfy and spend hours lost in the pages of a good book.  For as long as I can remember I have loved reading.  As a little girl my mom used to read to me all the time.  We had shelves and shelves [Read the rest]

As parents I think we all struggle to find the right balance of play and learning for our toddlers.  The drive seems to be towards having the best, brightest and most gifted toddler so you can brag to all the other moms at the park.  It drives me crazy when parents compare their children, especially [Read the rest]

Learning about your child’s school day is very important.  Finding out what happened, what homework they have, what might have gone wrong, what might have  gone right are all keys to figuring out how your child is doing at school and what sort of attitude you can expect from them that evening.  Asking the right [Read the rest]

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