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Table Talk: Growing Up by Ashley Parks

by Kay | Apr 12, 2012 | Purposeful Parenting

Today’s Table Talk is by Ashley Parks, author of The Saving Seed: Growing a Financially Healthy Family Tree. She has so much to share on planting and modeling “good financial behaviors with you children, starting in their youth and continuing into...

Heard on the Street – Keep on Keepin’ on “Mean Moms”

by Kay | Mar 14, 2012 | kids & work, Laughter

My friend Ann shared with me the Mean Mom Poem. I searched for the author in order to give credit where credit is due. Maybe whoever wrote is it was just one of us. Doing her best. Loving her kids by making them pitch in and work – because she is committed to...

Heard on the Street – French Moms Superior?

by Kay | Feb 6, 2012 | Heard on the Streed, kids & work

I love posting what a MOAT or DOAT (DAD of Adolescents and Teens :) sends my way. Today’s link (at the bottom) is from one of my favorite sources, the Wall Street Journal. I found this to be of particular interest especially in context of a recent conversation I...

The Vols

by Kay | Dec 12, 2011 | Purposeful Parenting, service

I’ve told y’all about my roommate when I was a Freshman at Baylor – sweet Susan whom I corrupted with my cluttery ways. (see Coming Clean) After that year, I lived with the same group of girls until we graduated. One of our little gang of four was my...

Heard on the Street – Holiday Jobs

by Kay | Dec 9, 2011 | kids & work

The other night at dinner, Jon and I met a delightful couple whose daughter is a Freshman in college finishing her Fall semester. Her folks are happy to help her with a portion of tuition and a small monthly allowance. The operative word, “small” –...

Realizing the Value of Money

by Kay | Nov 7, 2011 | kids & work, Laughter

With Homecomings in the air, I was encouraged by a couple of MOAT kids’ approach to the high school festivity. One of them not only asked a young lady in his grade, but also paid for the entire evening out of his own stash. “How did he get the...