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Can Garage Sales Teach Your Kids Negotiation Skills?

It’s better than a scavenger hunt and more entertaining than Saturday morning cartoons. Visiting garage sales can help you find big bargains and help your kids learn how to handle money.
Here are some tips for successful hunting from Sonia Weis, coauthor of Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Garage and Yard Sales (Penguin).

Before you go, tell [...]

Do You Know Your Kid’s Teacher?

Whar does it mean to teach? The dictionary defines the verb teach as:
• To impart, provide or instruct knowledge or skill
• To condition to a certain action or frame of mind
• To cause to learn by example or experience
• To advocate or preach
• To carry on instruction on a regular basis in
That last one, to carry on instruction [...]

School Lunch Ideas

Hot lunch at school can become quite expensive. Figure on average, hot lunch costs $2.10 per day if you include milk with the meal. If you have three children, $6.30 a day, multiplied by five days, that’s $31.50 a week… just for lunch! Is it convenient for parents? You betcha. [...]

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