When should a woman have her first child or baby?
Reading this article from the L.A. Times annoyed me: Survey: Majority of Americans say women should have first child by 25 When should a women have her first baby? A majority of Am
Do your damn job as a parent
I have a parent and many relatives as teachers and professors, and I know plenty of teachers, so when I read this on Garth’s post called Little Monsters about how one parent
The Cosby Show: All about College, Budgeting and Life
Bill Cosby, always the voice of steady reason and reality, something it seems, is sorely lacking in our society these days. I miss watching this show! Hat tip to Rockstar Finance f
You can get more money if you’re unemployed in France than if you work minimum wage
Heard on the French radio the other day (Les Grosses Têtes) that a guy did some research between a family that was unemployed (neither parent working) and a family with two parent
Stay at home parents, DO NOT call yourselves “Household Engineers”!!
On the show Property Brothers today, a rather annoying woman called herself a “household engineer”, and it threw me for a loop until I realized she was a stay-at-home-p
Financial advice I wish my parents had given me
When I got my first job flipping burgers, I wish my parents had sat me down and said: Listen up! Now that you have a job, you have responsibilities to take care of your money. (A
Why I won’t be paying for my children’s college education
… increased parental financial investment actually decreases GPA, though it does increase the odds of graduation within five years. … these findings suggest that studen
Filial Piety 101: How the giving back to your parents starts happening
I take this behaviour for granted because it is common in my culture, but apparently some of you folks do not know what it’s like to be in a culture that expects children to
You don’t desire what you have never had
My mom said this to me the other day when I was asking her about what it was like to grow up in poverty. I kept saying: I can’t imagine living like that, sleeping on a fruit
Western education is going down the toilet
So in a follow-up to my post about how we should stop seeing it as a bad thing to fail, I thought I’d share some observations I’ve had over the years of watching my mot