Is your 10-15 year old ready for sex?
It would appear that one school district thinks they are. ABC News reported on a school district in Portland, Maine that’s making birth control pills available to it’s students via the school health center. The King Middle School Committee voted seven to two in favor of offering the contraceptive. By making the pill available to students, is the school leadership telling the students it’s okay for you to be having sex or is it an instance of the students are already doing it, let’s make sure an unwanted pregnancy doesn’t happen? What are your thoughts on this issue?
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How to handle popularity issues at school
With the school year and classes starting it soon will the popularity issues begin. Groups will form from jocks to geeks. How does a kid deal with the issues of popularity when they aren’t in the group they want to be in? How do you as a parent deal with the rejection your child feels?
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How to teach your kid to program
Tiger Woods started golfing at age three. What’s to say a kid couldn’t start programing at age three. (Hmmm, they would have to know their alphabet first. Small hurdle!) Wired.com has a sizeable list of resources for teaching your kid how to program. Who knows, he or she could be the next Bill Gates.
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Look no further than your local library!
I found myself looking for something to do with my preschool aged child during the daytime this past week and stumbled across a great resource – our public library! Besides an endless supply of books, I discovered that our public library has some great activities such as:
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Teaching Entrepreneurship and Investing: Eight Ideas For Parents Who Want To Instill Good Personal Finance Values
In a world run by money, it’s important that people know how to use it. It’s even more important to pass that know-how to the next generation. TheSimpleDollar.com has a great article on “Teaching Entrepreneurship and Investing: Eight Ideas For Parents Who Want To Instill Good Personal Finance Values”. The article provides some great ideas on how to teach your kids about entrepreneurship and investing. Head on over to TheSimpleDollar.com and check it out!
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Give your kids a magazine of their own
I was in the doctors office today and came across one of my favorite childhood magazines of all times, Highlights for kids! As I was perusing through it many childhood memories came flooding back as I read through the numerous articles, jokes, puzzles, crafts, and off the wall trivia. Highlights Magazine is written for children ages six through twelve.
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