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Mom-Approved Tips: You might be a micro-manager if…

By on Monday, November 11th, 2013 | No Comments

  Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! Or subscribe to my blog on the left and get email updates. One day your child is dependent on you for everything and the next day they are managing on their own. They don’t need you to dress them, or feed them, or tuck […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: Teaching Teens Consquences

By on Monday, November 4th, 2013 | No Comments

  One of the first things we learn growing up is that all of our actions have consequences. If we pull a glass of water off the table, it will spill all over us. If we touch a hot burner on the stove, it will burn. If we pick up a knife on the blade, […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: Inside the mind of a college-bound teen

By on Monday, October 28th, 2013 | No Comments

  Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! Or subscribe to my blog via email on the left. The stress of the college admissions season weighs heavy on your college-bound teen. I read an old article today from a NY Times blog and I felt it was worth sharing to […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: 6 Stressful College Tasks (and how to keep from freaking out)

By on Monday, October 21st, 2013 | 2 Comments

  This is your kid.  This is your kid in the midst of the college prep process.    It’s no surprise the middle name of college-bound teens is “stress”. According to a recent survey, 76 percent of college-bound students say they are stressed. If you live with one, you’re stressed too; and not just you, […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: The Truth about College

By on Monday, October 14th, 2013 | No Comments

  Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! During our student’s senior year of high school we live in a bubble. All sights are set on one goal—getting into college. Students and parents focus on college selection, college applications, financial aid forms, and then we wait. We wait for the […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: Unsolicited Advice

By on Monday, October 7th, 2013 | No Comments

  Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! Ellen Snortland, author and Huff Post blogger states it simply in an article about unsolicited advice: What makes these mediocre meddlers, these know-nothing-nattering-nabobs of the obvious, these kings and queens of blah, blah, blah, think that anyone really wants or needs their cheap […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: Talking to your teens about financing college

By on Monday, September 30th, 2013 | No Comments

  Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! If you have a college-bound teen you’re well aware of the cost of college–it’s high. In a recent story in Business Week, one graduate confessed she had given up on her student loan debt of $186,000. She is not alone. With the […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: Out of Control Parents

By on Monday, September 23rd, 2013 | No Comments

Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! You know you’ve experienced them: out of control parents. They show up at their kids sport events and yell at the coaches and the umpires. They show up in the education system bullying teachers, coaches, administrators and other parents. Their kids rarely have […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: Do the Math

By on Monday, September 9th, 2013 | No Comments

  Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! Math– not my favorite subject. The words fraction, parallelogram, and xy coordinates strike fear and panic in the hearts of most parents. But believe it or not, according to a recent survey, 42% of adults believe that math was the most valuable […]

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Mom-Approved Tips: Dealing with separation anxiety

By on Monday, August 26th, 2013 | No Comments

  It’s that time of year. Parents are dropping kids off at school and there are always tears—sometimes from both parents and students. It’s the inevitable separation anxiety. When I was a kid, my mom told me that she was afraid my brother would hang on to her skirt until he left for college. I, […]

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