Talking College PreK-12: Moms and Dads It’s Time
There is a desperate need for families to intervene in the lives of their kids to create a hunger and passion for learning. We are living in an age and time when literacy is demanded for everyday living. In communities of color, the need for financial literacy out paces the need to read and write […]
Sundays:Worship with Family
As a little girl growing up in the south, Sunday’s were special days. I got to dress-up and put on my “Sunday clothes,” as they were called back then. I was raised by loving grandparents with a 4th and 7th grade education, respectively, while my young mother traveled north to make a life for the […]
Enjoy Your Weekend:Workout Saturdays
Saturdays are great days to concentrate more on your overall well being. The kids are at home. No lunch bags, or buckets or water bottles to hunt for. The scramble for homework and book reports said to be declared eaten by the dog or shredded by some other intruder during the night, is out. Psychologically, […]
Fuel the Joy of Everyday Life with Food Family and Forgiveness
Making a choice to live life as a fully committed, live being, is the most important decision of a life time. It’s all about high-level fellowship and communion. The power of gathering in response to the relationship inherent in a family is mind boggling. No matter how family responds during times of indifference and growth, […]
8 Bedtime Rituals for Kids
It has been a long day and now you are ready to relax and gather your thoughts in preparation for another day at work. But, before you do, there’s the end of day tasks of getting kids ready for bed and prepared for school in the morning. Here are some bedtime practices to help get […]
6 Ways to Help Promote Your Child’s Value
Kids are inherently valuable. They were created with special gifts, skills and abilities to bless the world and provide answers where there are questions. Below are 5 ways to promote your child’s value. 1. HUGS AND “I LOVE YOU” THROUGHOUT THE DAY Families that are generous with giving their kids hugs and love throughout the […]
How to Help Kids be Successful: Creating Zones of Support at Home
Creating secure areas or zones of support to engage your kids is vital to their growth and development into high performing, creative and productive beings. Their ability to move through the complexities of life and be delivered into adulthood capable of accomplishing complex tasks, is possible for all kids, no matter their economic standing. Below […]
Boost Your Child’s Performance at School
Sleep is probably the most critical of all the ways to kick start a successful school day followed by a good breakfast and a hearty belly laugh before running out the door to catch the bus or other transport. Their body and their brain craves sleep so much – so it can do its job! […]
5 Ways to Kick-Start Your Kid’s Financial Future
Foundational money management principles can be learned early in the life of a child. Money Models and Fundamentals in communities of color is hard to determine. Lean finances make it difficult to honor promises made for allowances and other financial incentives proposed today as a way of moving kids early on and away from being […]
The Power of Prayer
OH, HAPPY DAY! CREATIVES and artists in the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY (FILM, TV, BILLBOARD) are gifted from the heart of God. Just as God created the universe with its planets and stars with the universe containing perhaps billions of galaxies with each millions or billions of stars, with their enormity of numbers there still remains lots […]
