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15 Ways to Nurture Your Kids’ Spanish During the Summer

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According to a 2013 Pew Research Center report, Spanish is the most widely spoken language at home in the United States, other than English. It is also the most widely spoken language, besides English, by non-Hispanics. However, Pew Research…
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Jealous of Your Back-to-School kids? 15 Awesome Courses You Can Take Online

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We’re the first to admit there’s something about the end of summer and beginning of fall that brings back memories of those first days of school. We even admit that we’re more excited than our kids about school supply shopping. There’s…
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Conscious TV: 20 Life Lessons We Learned from Watching TED Talks

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If you haven’t seen a TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) Talk, you’re cheating yourself out of some of the most intellectual and entertaining video out there. TED—whose mission statement is Ideas worth spreading.—began in…
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15 Tragic Reasons Why America is Still a “Columbine Nation”

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The word Columbine strikes fear in parents all over the world. The tragic 1999 shooting in Colorado was every parents’ worst nightmare. We send our children to school, expecting them to be safer there than on the streets, but sometimes they…
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15 Alternative School Styles that Might be Right for Your Kid

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As Common Core and standardized tests continue to permeate our educational system and in-school violence leaves parents afraid to send their kids to traditional, public schools, alternative school and education programs are booming. “Education…
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10 Ways to Tell if Your Kids’ Teachers are Doing their Job

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Whether it’s peanut butter or education, parents want the best for their children. From meeting the teachers to participating in the PTO, parents are usually willing to invest in their child’s education as they invest in their own careers.…
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8 Essential Money Lessons Parents Need to Teach Their Kids

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Sadly, many kids’ financial knowledge is limited to the idea that money comes from ATMs and that you just need to swipe a card to buy something. As adults we know it’s a bit more complicated and we struggle to teach our children how to…
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Does Your Kids’ Math Homework Make You Hyperventilate? 15 Ways to Up Your Numbers Game

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Most of us parents haven’t had to do a real math problem in years. It’s tough enough to remember the math skills we learned way back when we were in school but to grasp the newfangled ways they’re teaching math today can be downright…
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14 Tips on Properly Using the (Often Misused) Semicolon

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Poor semicolon. So misunderstood; so misused. Despite years of grammar classes we never know exactly when to use a semicolon, where to put it in a sentence or how exactly it’s supposed to be used. The comma we understand. It’s simple and…