Want to do something for the future of your children and the national debt all at the same time? Get 'em to the playground three times a week. New research shows that if we, as parents, teacher, guardians, whatever, would help increase the percentage of kids who get 25 minutes of physical activity each week from [...]
Advertisers want your preferences (they're paying for them,) friends are commanding us on Facebook to choose between pasta and rice (as if....) and now behavioral scientists are getting in the game: a group from New York University wanted to know whether us bargain hunters are more likely buy from retailers advertising "deep discounts" or "everyday low [...]
We're supposed to be cooking for - or even better yet, cooking with - our kids. Why? Home cooked meals were associated with diets lower in calories, sugar and fat, but not with higher monthly expenses for food, according to the University of Washington School of Public Health."By cooking more often at home, you have a better [...]
We walk into grocery stores worried about shopping lists and coupons, but confident that the same corporations who fill produce bakery smells purely so we spend more money have also designed a cart safe enough to keep our kids from splattering to the floor. Big mistake. Unlike cribs and car seats, which are all mandated by [...]
Venmo is the magical app that makes it possible for us to instantly pay for wine at a friend's members-only club without being a member - two clicks on your phone and you've bought the next bottle. It is, you could say, a But, the Federal Trade Commission has received a number of complaints about how [...]
Finally, parenting we can all achieve! News from one of the country's most esteemed academic institutions tells us to mess up. Yes, this is good parenting that will help our kids succeed! Researchers from MIT found that babies who watched an adult struggle at two different tasks before succeeding tried harder at their own difficult task, [...]
No more disparaging the idea of your kid flipping burgers or fetching coffee, doing these jobs today will get a young person ahead later in life. Teenagers who work summer or evening jobs - yes, after school - will develop knowledge of the working world and become more likely to make more money in the future. [...]
If there's a retail enticement I cannot resist, it's a store's dangling of impossibly stylish clothing for seemingly reasonable prices. You spend $39 (that's about the common offering) and in return get a pair of shoes or a set of lingerie or an awesome workout outfit. What could possibly go wrong? A lot, it turns out, as [...]
The holidays are over but if you gave your child a tablet, cell phone or laptop, the spirit may just last, well, until the damn thing gets lost or broken. But before then, if we as parents aren't careful about the information we share on apps, there are some consequences we will could suffer for longer. [...]
People across the country are reporting that they're getting telephone calls and letters from people trying to collect on loans the consumers never received or on loans they did receive but for amounts they do not owe. Sometimes, the letters or phone calls allege they're from lawyers or judges, and contain an official looking seal. The [...]