Vendor booths are at almost every event you can think of including: My friend’s 3 homeschoolers are about to create a booth for an event geared specifically for business-oriented/entrepreneurial kids: Their mom and I were business partners for over 20 years and we did so many events I thought...
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Homeschool Convention – Time to Explore
Today my husband and I attended a Homeschool Convention. Our son was homeschooled and while I never attended a convention while we were homeschooling, we were curious about the resources for homeschooled families in our area. This is a summary of some of the resource vendors at this event,...
Stupid and Incapable? Get Lost in a Book
That’s how I felt after a recent conversion. So I stopped. Took a couple of minutes to scan across my past and found one of the moments where this idea may have originated. 3rd grade, learning to memorize times tables. Wait, it’s farther back than that. Kindergarten, public school,...
Financial Skills: Truth Telling & Demon Slaying
I do quite a bit of financial coaching and watch people trip themselves up regularly. If like me, financial skills are not your strongest set of skills, you might like to review some of the basics… 12 Personal Finance Skills Probably more important than learning specific financial skills is...
Empty Nest/Funny Hat
When the child/children fly the coop, so to speak. What’s left? A bedroom, some of their things, loads of memories around every corner. Parents have dedicated everything they have to their child/children and then send them on their way, it’s an experience worth doing! Even though there is a...
How to Think? Balance Big and Detail!
Balanced Big and Detail Thinking! When The Big Picture Syncs with the Small Picture (aka Detail Oriented) Consider what type of thinker you are. If you are very much to one extreme I hope you will spend some time figuring out how to find balance for yourself in a...
To Gather Together
From Self to Other, that’s the way life skill development works best. In talking to someone brand new to skill development recently I discovered/remembered that one of the hardest parts of skill development for us adults is the realization that the voices from our past must be turned down/off...
Quiet the Critical Voices
We all have that person in our lives, the one that is very critical of us. How many voices develop inside our head is uniquely our own. I have spent so many years quieting parents, teachers, friends, and family it always surprises me when something new pops up. With...
Be Brave! Teen to Adult Change
20 Things – Important Adult Knowledge (Read this!!!! Great for Parents and Youth) Way back, in my teen years I wrote this poem… I’m so small, just a speck of dust.I’m a part of the whole, but so insignificant.I try to fit in, but I’m on the outside.I can...
Starting a Family Business: Step 1: Naming
What do we call it? It’s one of the first questions to be answered for anything new. Human, pet, or business we need to call them something. From a business/marketing perspective, there are a number of considerations when choosing a formal business name. But this is supposed to be...