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Life Skills Your Kid Needs to Learn Before Leaving Home
There are plenty of life skills your teenager can learn by living with you. And now since they are likely out of school — you have more opportunities to teach them. The problem is, sometimes it can seem like too much of a challenge to teach them. This is especially true when you’re a busy working parent — especially if you are working from home — who just wants to get stuff done. However, remember that when you had kids you took on this responsibility and it’s your job to turn out adults onto the world who know how to do things. The good news is, if you start early,…
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A Weekend at Texas A&M on Tour
My son graduates from high school in May, so we are on the hunt for colleges. This means the “college tour” exercise! Since we live in Texas, we wanted to keep the Texas schools in play as an option for him. He’s somewhat ambivalent about staying in Texas. He has aspirations of being states away from us… I did the same thing when I was looking for colleges – I swore I was going far, far away – but I ended up only 90 minutes away from my folks. In the town where they both grew up… I really got away, huh? LOL So, we scheduled a college tour on…




