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“Hey, Mom!” Your fourteen-year old daughter greets you as she walks to the car. Your eyes bulge at the blue eye shadow and black liner smudged around her eyes.
Your daughter turns and waves to a made-up girl in a tight shirt and ripped jeans standing on the sidewalk. The girl waves back and saunters away, […]

“Let us beware and beware and beware…of having an ideal for our children. So doing, we damn them.” D.H. Lawrence
So begins the parenting chapter of David Keirsey’s Please Understand Me, II. Although “typing” personalities began in the days of Plato, nearly 2400 years ago, most of us have not been given the tools to understand […]

Want to teach your child to read, but not sure how? Relax. You’re not alone, and it’s easier than you think. Whether your child is 4 months or 4 years, now is the time to begin.
Teaching your son or daughter to read is not a one-day or one-weekend event. It’s a mind-set, an awareness of […]

Learning to write an effective resume is a life skill most people cannot afford to ignore.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median tenure for most professionals is about 4 years. For employees between the ages of 25 and 34, the median tenure is only 2.9 years.
Since most of us will change jobs […]