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Federal guidelines recommend that families spend no more than 10% of their income on child care expenses. But in the real world, many spend two and three times that amount because they simply have no choice. And while quality child care is expensive no matter where you live, in some states it now costs more to send your kid to day care than it does to send your kid to college. Continue reading »
According to Grandparents.com, 70 million Americans are grandparents. And today’s grandparents are active, healthy and have money to spend on what many say is the single most important and satisfying thing in their lives: Grandchildren. But while some grandparents might spring for a family vacation in order to get some quality time with their children’s children, others are taking a different route. They are going back to school and taking the grand-kids with them. Continue reading »
After working hard to earn advanced degrees and build successful careers, many moms are opting out of the workplace. It’s not because they are burned out or tired of hitting their heads on the glass ceiling. These educated and intelligent women are stepping off their hard-earned career tracks so that their children might someday step on. Continue reading »
Good news today for future college students: Obama signed into law an overhaul of the student loan program that will make loans easier to get and more affordable to repay.
The changes are expected to make higher education more widely available to underprivileged youth, but will also cost jobs in the private student lending sector.
Census forms started arriving last week, and they’re remarkably simple — just a few basic facts about every person living in the household.
But what if a member of the family doesn’t live in the household? Lisa Belkin at Motherlode has a freshman in college. When it came time to fill out her census form, her heart hurt a little when she realized she wouldn’t be counting her oldest child. Belkin writes:
Remember the beloved children’s book The Runaway Bunny? Little Bunny tried his hardest to run away, but his mother kept blocking his escape route: She’d be a fisherman fishing him out of the stream, the wind blowing his sailboat, and the tree he flies home to.
“If you become a crocus in a hidden garden,” said his mother, “I will be a gardener. And I will find you.”
Cute when you’re three, of course. It’s comforting to know that mom’s always looking out for you. But at 18? It starts to move into the realm of creepy.
Parenting blogs are discussing a new trend this week: Colleges have noticed the influx of helicopter parents on their campuses, and they’re taking advantage of the extra attention. At some colleges, parents of underage students who get caught drinking get a phone call home to alert Mom and Dad.
By most accounts, the advent of online college coursework has been a godsend for the American parent.
No more nights spent out of the house attending classes. More chances to be both parent and student. Sounds like a win/win if there ever was one. And if you read Carolyn Kepcher’s column in the New York Post this week, you’d be falling all over yourself to make it happen.
But here’s what the oversell doesn’t tell you – online courses are easier on parents, but they’re still not “easy.” Continue reading »
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