Trust and Learning vs Shame and Ignorance
We just talked about how people in the United States would rather talk with their friends about sex than about money. Let’s carry the link between sex and money a little further today. Remember back to sex ed in elementary school, in junior high, with your parents, and possibly also…
Start With Why
It’s inevitable, all parents will run into this at some point, today was just my day. The day you catch your kids lying, deliberately, at an age old enough to know both the difference between truth and lie, and old enough to know better. In fact, actually both yesterday and…
Ups and Downs
I was catching up with someone today, entertaining them with stories of parenting while working during the months of stay at home time for COVID-19. Tales of distance learning. Life got a lot easier here once school ended, with my having to manage the executive functioning for the kids. “Where…
Worrying about Grandma, aka the value (and limitations) of secondary data
My nonagenarian Grandma lives in Midland, MI. Home of the current floods that are making the news. I didn’t find out about the floods until too late at night to be making phone calls. And I love my Grandma, I would have a really hard time going to sleep if…
The drain of staying isolated
Some feel it more than others. The drain of staying isolated, as we get further into Stay At Home orders. Depending on your home situation, and how much of an introvert vs extrovert you are, and whether you’ve got an essential business position that you have to report to in…
The importance of distancing socially
It is well known that one of the risk factors for death in the elderly is loss of their important social groups, as friends, family, and pets die or are moved away. Still not convinced? Take some of your shut in time to read this book, The Blue Zones (no…
The super power of flexibility
I’ve got to take a minute here to brag about my husband. I’m a planner, I am the reason the bills get paid on time, that there’s a meal plan, and groceries bought to support it. I’m the reason there’s consistently clean laundry (when we aren’t having plumbing problems), and…
But what can I do?
People are feeling very out of control currently, as the world is rapidly changing around them. After Friday’s press conference where the Minnesota governor was talking about how they didn’t plan to close schools, the Minnesota governor announced today (Sunday) that schools will be closed effective Wednesday. But some schools…
COVID-19 and teaching experiences for kids
COVID-19 is stressing many families right now. Parents are asking, what do I talk about with my children? From a financial perspective, in my family we are talking about what various people are doing. For example, we have accelerated purchases that we would normally make, in the form of non-perishables…
Value of additional income
With it being tax season, my kiddos were watching me spread out all of our family tax paperwork across the kitchen table, and of course wanted to know more. I didn’t think they were going to get much value from a line-by-line review of our tax return however 😛 Instead,…