Money matters and so does time. That’s why as adults and parents we need to start considering having the money talk with our kids sooner rather than later. — By Pierre Raymond As adults, we are constantly reminded how to save, invest, budget, and grow our capital wealth. Yet even with all the tools and access, the internet has provided us with, still, too many adults are not capable of understanding or working with their own money.

If one is male and disabled is one then doubly rebuked by the normal fit world for being less than the idealized, prototypical male? Just askin’. — By Sean J Mahoney I had an interesting…no let’s call it revealing…a revealing experience a few years ago and again a few months ago about two weeks after my wife Dianne and I returned from Spain. Let us now splice baby, splice. Most of us are aware that fitness, and…

Maybe not quite an adult yet, but yes, old enough to drink. — By Jeff Cann 9/11 is old enough to drink. 9/11 is an adult — if twenty-one is actually an adult. My daughter Sophie can’t rent a car until she’s twenty-five. Kids can stay on their parent’s medical insurance until they turn twenty-six. My own adolescence didn’t end until I turned…

Problems are not medical disorders. — By Eric Maisel [This post is excerpted from Why Smart Teens Hurt. To learn more, please take a look!] Smart teens are in grave danger of succumbing to a particular kind of sadness. It is a sadness that arises out of a too-keen understanding that human beings are merely excited…

How do we close the gap? — By Kara Post-Kennedy When I was growing up, we didn’t get a lot of mixed messages about what it means to be a man (or a woman). Sure, ads told us that women could “bring home the bacon”, but then she was the one expected to “fry it up in…

It happens. It happens because life happens. People change, circumstances change, and our beliefs do sometimes change. — By Lisa A. Listwa I used to love the classroom. When I was a little girl, I loved school. I loved everything about it. The swirls of leaves falling outside as we walked through the door in September. The pencils, the crayons, the phonics books. I loved my Charlie Brown…

The most encouraging data trends are relative: decreasing carbon intensity in power generation (and overall GDP) and per-capita emissions in many leading economies. — By Michael Sutherland This post began as “Carbon emissions of China”, but that seemed to me too limited (despite these posts’ brevity) because of the predictable, repeated, pattern: increasing annual and cumulative CO2 emissions as a function of economic activity (excepting the COVID dip). The most encouraging data trends are…

The details may be different, but teenaged judgment is teenaged judgment, no matter the generation. — By Mark Johnson God, I’m convinced, enjoys a good practical joke. Now, I really do believe that He wants only the best for us in the long run, but I see God as kind of a successful but very strict high school basketball coach; He’s going to make the players…

Everyone feels lonely from time to time. It’s a normal part of the human experience. — By Brent Peak Everyone feels lonely from time to time. It’s a normal part of the human experience. But some people are more vulnerable to slipping from loneliness into depression. …