When kids do graduate, the most daunting challenge can be the cost of college.
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Enough dreams and goals to get through the next stage together when kids are grown?
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It's natural to try and blame poor parenting when kids don't turn out as well as we'd hope.
And parents need to be fully attentive when kids are in any pool.
That has to start when kids are young, and it's a lifelong journey.
It seems when kids play, they have little, if any, attention to spare for serious endeavors like deciphering how much they like a product.
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But in our own household, with all the privileges and opportunities that we have, there are times -- look, there are times when kids slack off.
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When kids collect dinosaurs, parents, blinded by science, simply shrug when their children yell in the museum, "Look, mom, that allosaurus is eating the brachiosaur's baby!"
Everyone knows the problems that arise when kids walk into a candy store: Everything looks so good they want it all, and they end up overdoing it.
So when I screwed up, the consequences weren't as high as when kids on the South Side screw up. (Applause.) So I had more of a safety net.
When kids move back home with parents, it puts parents in the complicated position of wanting to support their children while trying to help them launch their own lives.
And the thing we found out is that when kids play a role in what they do, they're much more inclined to try new stuff if they grew it.
One panel member asserted that this age of CYO eligibility was when kids were to be taught good and bad touching and co-ed contact football introduced confusion on the latter.
Like I try to prepare myself because I - you know, when kids are really little and they fall down and they're not quite sure if they're hurt, so they look at you.
Tami Giammarco, lead engineer on the van's interior, said the vacuum idea came from the daughter of an engineer who saw how frustrated her father was when kids made a mess in his van.
She has a fairly consistent record when kids are hurt by products, babies are hurt by products, of saying the parents are responsible and there was nothing that could be done to make the product safer.
He thinks states with smaller economies like Mississippi and West Virginia should not be investing more heavily in K-12 education because when kids get a good early education they tend to leave the state and the state economy does not benefit.
But in this postwar environment, when kids became the center of our lives, Disneyland was the perfect vacation because it was built around the child, the child's needs, actually even the child's scale because Main Street was scaled down to about 80 percent of normal height.
When kids learn to grow vegetables, they learn not only how to eat in a healthy way but how to be productive and are armed with a value system that will help them to navigate in their lives -- values such as patience, appreciation, sharing, honesty and respect.
"You know five, six years ago, with cell phones, we were simply worried about conversations going on when kids should be listening in class, phones ringing and disturbing the teacher while they were trying to teach, but we weren't worried about pictures, we weren't worried about text messages, " he says.
The moral here is: Stuff your retirement accounts full when the kids are younger, because if you try to catch up when they are in college you will be given no mercy.
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For example, you might save less while you have a mortgage and 4 kids to feed and make up the difference by saving more when the kids are gone and the house is paid off.
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Women are considered the default parent, yet are judged at every turn: for not having kids, for when they have kids, for how they parent the kids they have.
That came in handy when the kids each had a friend over for the quesadilla dinner.
So I don't like when my kids get caught in the crossfire of that stuff.
"Give me six years, when our kids start going through the system, " he said.
Or maybe you'd get an e-mail telling you when the kids are home from school.
Of course, most of this money is spent on childcare, especially when the kids are young.
The Greenes also step in with carefully targeted encouragement when their kids hit a rough patch.
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