By David Lawrence Jr. Miami Chairman, Children’s Movement of Florida
Question: If your teacher tells you that 90 percent of your exam will be on the first five chapters of the textbook, do you spend an equal amount of your time reading chapters six, seven and eight? Or do you focus — invest more of [...]
My oldest daughter, Ruth (age 11) and I spent girl time together. We shopped and ate and talked. I wanted the same experience with my middle child, Carolyn (age 10). Getting Carolyn to open up and talk was tougher.
“So, Carolyn,” I began, “how is school?” ”Fine,” Carolyn said. We paused conversation and took [...]
Corina Kellam, a journalist I recently interviewed, turned her avocation into a vocation. She is Director of Legacy Keepers, a legacy-preservation service. Clients are interviewed, and then those spoken words are crafted into heirloom audio CD sets, memoir books and high-definition video DVDs.
Ms. Kellam previously founded Life History Books, an affordable [...]
I carried my 3 year old son into the bank and walked up to the teller. ”Hello”, she said to us. Shyly, my son put his head down on my shoulder. The bank teller and I chatted as I finished my banking business. Leaving her window, my son commented, “I don’t like her.”
I will start at the beginning…. well, the beginning of the middle, that is. After all, that is where life as I now know it began. For 18 years I did a magazine column called “Life’s a Beach,” and it chronicled [...]
Raising children is something that many people do, but not many people actually think about. It seems that most people go about raising their children by the seat of their pants, approaching each situation as it arises, not giving much thought as to the “formula” they are going to use [...]
“One of the most fascinating studies I’ve ever done,” says Peter Francese, founder of American Demographics Magazine and one of the nation’s leading demographics and consumer marketing experts, describing the report published last summer by MetLife Mature Market Institute titled “American Grandparents: New Insights for a New Generation of Grandparents.”
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