Posted by CFagan on November 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm

Should You Tell Your Kid You Were Canned?

fired 287x300 Should You Tell Your Kid You Were Canned?So you figured that it would happen at one point in your life and it finally did.  You’ve been fired.  Pink-slipped.  Handed your walking papers.  Now what on earth do you tell the kids?

My initial gut would have been to sugarcoat it…spin a fairy tale worthy of Walt Disney himself.  But then I read a piece in the Huffington Post by Mika Brzezinski’s, co-anchor of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.   A few years before landing the cable gig,  Brzezinski was a hot shot at CBS News:  anchor of the weekend newscast and correspondent for 60 Minutes Wednesday.  A network shakeup sent her to the unemployment line, clutching a severance package and a bruised ego.

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Posted by hannahtm on June 3rd, 2009 at 6:00 pm

Boy Helps Police Apprehend His Dad

drunk Boy Helps Police Apprehend His DadA 10-year-old boy took a courageous stand against his father’s drinking problem in Wisconsin recently. According to police, 51-year-old Mark Kotowski was visibly intoxicated when he arrived at the boy’s school to pick him up after classes let out. After Kotowski drove away, school authorities alerted police, who pulled Kotowski over soon after he’d left the school grounds with his son in the car. Continue reading »


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