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Summer jobs
If you have a teenager, you may be facing a summer where they disappear into their room with an electronic device, only emerging for meals. Or they’re champing at the bit to be taxied about to friends, sports activities and more. Worse still, activities they want to do [...]Read more
Teach your teens entrepreneurship
Schools provide the essential academic learning that equips kids to achieve a satisfying role in life. But few schools have the time or resources to teach life skills. There simply isn’t space in the curriculum and so, although teachers do their best to impart practical advice, [...]Read more
Time to choose a career?
The child who has a clear view of their career path from an early age is rare. Most kids don’t know what they want to do when they finish education, so how do they make the right decisions for their future? Part of the problem is that you don’t know what you don’t know. As […]Read more
Should kids get part-time jobs?
Surprisingly there are still paper-boys (and girls) who get up really early and earn extra pocket money by delivering daily newspapers around their area. At one time paper-boys could be as young as 10, especially in rural areas, but now you have to be 13 years old and the pay [...]Read more