Financial Education For Kids – Have Your Kids Pay For Their Own College
Families are being pulled in all directions financially these days. Most are concerned with just making ends meet. Putting money away for their children’s education then becomes massively overwhelming in today’s economy. And for some families, an impossible dream.
The Reality of the Cost of College
Up until the 1970’s to the early 1980’s, the idea of working your way through college was within reach. Granted, it wasn’t easy, but it was still attainable. Student loans were more accessible, and had easier terms.
With college tuition skyrocketing, student loan access shrinking, and a poor job market, its put college out of reach for many kids. In fact, its forced many kids to look at community colleges as a stepping stone to a four year institution to earn a bachelor’s degree., and changed the way they enter school. Instead of applying to a four year institution, they’ll first go to a community college, then hope to transfer into a university, thereby cutting the cost of tuition.
Wouldn’t it be better if you can prepare your child for paying their own way through college, and do it a fraction of the cost of contributing to their education financially?
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Science Educational Toys Popular With Kids Today
As children grow the best things for them to learn and play with include things which are geared toward more science educational toys. They can learn and have fun at the same time. Educational toys help younger children brains develop at a faster rate. Science teaches them not only how things work or how things can be made but also how things in nature and the Earth works and why. These can be fun for the entire family to enjoy and join in on the creating and the building.
One fun and colorful scientific wonder toy is that of special brightly colored sand which when placed in water stays dry. Once it is in the water your child can then have the task of creating different shapes and forms with use of a straw. Another sand related activity is being able to play at digging of cosmic rocks. These are made from Tektites which are meteorite fragments that your child can actually dig into and explore.
They can also grow there very own crystals easily by a kit which includes everything they need. The chemicals within dissolve once they are added to water and then turn into brilliantly … READ MORE ...
How to Balance Your Decision to Raise Thinking Kids With Schools Requesting Over-Involved Parents
When my child was in the 2nd grade, and her teacher asked me why I didn’t sign her “homework” notebook, I told her it was because I was raising a “thinking” child.
It’s the same reason I didn’t:
- Go through my kids backpacks every day
- Pick out my child’s clothes
- Decide if they would bring lunch or buy lunch
- Make their lunch if they decided to bring it
- Sit in the classroom and “observe”
- Make a special trip to school to drop off a forgotten instrument, pair of cleats or science project
- Talk to the teacher about my child’s “performance” without my child present
- And 100 other decisions I made about my role in my child’s educational experience
I believed my primary job was to prepare my kids to leave home at 18 with the confidence necessary to make hundreds of decisions each day, the ability to overcome whatever challenge or obstacle they encounter and to do so with a sense of courage, curiosity and enthusiasm. That is how I defined my job as a mother. I made that decision when my first child came home from Kindergarten with a list of “expectations” the teacher had of me.… READ MORE ...
Kids, Media And The 5 Most Recommended Cartoons
Media can do two items to your child, great or bad. If managed effectively, media can educate our kids in their most vulnerable age as they are growing. All the things they understand in their younger years can and may perhaps stay till they grow old. Often, these factors dictate their behaviors and how they handle their parents.
What do you think is the reason why there are children who are so violent when they undergo tantrums? They tend to hurt everyone they see, especially their weaker peers. It’s in media. What they see on TV, for instance violence can make them think that it’s a good thing. And without anybody teaching them about it, it will affect their lives. Sometimes it will show on their later years.
So where do parents start their job to preempt these impending danger? It all begins in controlling media in the household. May it be TV, radio, comic books and even computers; we have to get hold of them. It’s only the first step. Next, parents should also choose the right shows for their kids. We parents should become some kind of a filtering machine and regulate the stuff our children … READ MORE ...
The Role of ELearning in the Education of Gifted Kids
Which child do you think has the greatest educational needs; a gifted student or a student with a learning disability? Most people will instinctively opt for the child with a learning disability. However, the gifted student often has just as many educational needs. These needs are not always recognized or, in some cases, are dealt with inappropriately.
For example, in an average mixed ability class, a teacher assigns a task which the majority of students should complete at roughly the same time. The gifted student will complete the assignment way ahead of the rest of the class and then want other things to do while his or her classmates finish. The teacher may assume that the gifted student should be able to organize their own time until the rest of the class has caught up. However, this makes a number of assumptions. First, that the teacher has, through appropriate training or experience, recognized the child is gifted, and second, that the student doesn’t want any more feedback from, or dialog with the teacher.
Not all gifted children allow their superior skills to be apparent. A teacher may have no idea that they have a gifted student in their … READ MORE ...