Someone Else’s Kids

I recently wrote an entry advising parents to do research on what drugs their kids might be exposed to these days. If your parental research turns up the fact that you started asking questions too late and your adolescent is already involved in drugs, then you need to find help to resolve the situation as […]

I hope you enjoyed the entries over the past few days in which I examined (in a tongue-in-cheek manner) positive and negative aspects of falling in different birth order places in a family.
If you read through all the entries, you will find that some contradict each other, even within
the positives and negatives of one birth […]

There are many reasons that people look for cheap loans. One of them is definitely to pay for college. With the prices at most universities and colleges continually spiraling upward, do you know anyone who can afford those costs out of pocket?
If the financial aid office of your child’s college can’t help you completely cover […]

Once again, middle children should thank me for purposefully listing them last just to help them prove their points that there is no glory in being the middle child.
5 Issues Middle Children Have With Being Middle Children
1. If you’re worried about making everyone else happy, when do you have time to care of yourself?
2. It’s hard to […]

Parents can never have too many reminders of the different ways that they need to protect their children. They need to be aware that drug addiction help actually starts with their own knowledge of what is going on in teenage culture these days.
With the way the media constantly reports and actually glorifies the drug […]

Sometimes being first means you have to blaze a trail and break your parents in. What thanks do you get? Here’s a list of issues that oldest children raise.
5 Things Oldest Children Hate About Being Oldest Children
1. It’s not fair that your parents scrutinized your friends so much. By the time the other […]

I recently wrote about student health insurance. If you are packing your kid off to college in a few weeks, there is another thing you should think about: a student credit card.
The best time to teach your children to be responsible with credit is when they are becoming semi-independent and the only credit cards […]

You hated being referred to as the “baby in the family” even when you were 26, right? Take a look back now with me and see some other reasons why youngest children think they have it the toughest.
5 Things Youngest Children Wish They Could Change
1. You never get to pick the game, toy, or destination. […]