Natural Medicine Guide for Moms
There's nothing alarming about a four-year old having eczema. Unless, of course, the US Food and Drug Administration links the steroid cream you've been applying to the kid's eczema - almost nightly - to lymphoma. [...]
3 Money Concepts for Kids Today
Most of our kids have no idea how to earn money, spend money or even give people charitable contributions, according to research commissioned by Junior Achievement and the Jackson Charitable Foundation. In a survey of [...]
Love, Marriage, and Financial Disaster
Don't let love leave you bankrupt. Janet Lombardi was once just like any of us; a mom with a husband and two kids, living on a suburban tree-lined street. The only perhaps slight [...]
Your Money: Revealing Facts Kids Need to Know
Talk to your kids about money or they'll develop their own, false theories. When family finances change for better or for worse - with bank balances seeming to cause sickness and those reflecting sudden health - [...]
Turn School Donations into Tax Breaks
You might be able to turn money donated to your kids' school into a tax break. Did you volunteer at a bake sale? Sorry to hear it, that's time you'll never get back. But [...]
(Practically) Free Activities for Families
Movies, dinners and arcade games.....family time can get expensive and it's time we as parents planned activities that cost less but mean more. Here are five ideas. Bake. Anytime an activity combines measuring, fractions, delicious smells, patience AND [...]
5 “Earth Friendly” Labels that Can Mean Nothing
Sometimes the sneakiest marketing is on a product's package, playing right into your earth-friendly focus when really, the words are distractions costing you more but helping much less. Here are the occasions when higher-priced products may be [...]
Inventors Beware: The Scam To Steal Your Marketing Money
It's hard to sell an idea but don't let this guy steal your marketing money. World Patent Marketing and Desa Industries (two companies that promise to promote your invention in exchange for thousands [...]
The Cost of Raising Kids: $233,610
Don't shoot the messenger here because it's the government (not the well-meaning financial bloggers) who calculate the cost of raising kids from birth to age 17. So yes, as you saw in our headline, this year's total [...]
Fight Cell Phone Radiation For Free
Yes, radiation is bad but no, a "shield" won't help. Reports from the World Health Organization have us terrified over the radiation traveling from our kids' phones to their heads, which means [...]