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3 Reasons You Must Make A Surprise Visit To Your Child’s School

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When a business or government leader wants to check on how their organization or agency is doing, they often institute surprise inspections. Management of these organizations and agencies know that they are more likely to discover what’s really going on when inspections are a surprise. Surprise inspections differ from announced inspections ... [Continue Reading]

Good Grief; Get Your Child An Eye Examination Already!

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Just the other day, I received an appointment reminder from the optometrist that it had been two years since my last eye examination. On the one hand when I received the notice, I thought what’s the big deal? I don’t need an examination to tell me what is painfully obvious. I’m blind as a bat. I can barely see anything without contacts or glasses ... [Continue Reading]

4 Reasons Your Child Needs To Create A Resume Today

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This Easter weekend could be a great time to do something that separates you from most parents. This weekend sit down with your child and start creating their resume or more accurately their A.E.A. (Academic & Extracurricular Abstract). Now I know that some would consider this a crazy idea but I’m not crazy. Well at least about creating and ... [Continue Reading]

How To Get Your Child On Track To Succeed

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There is an athletic event that I believe every child would benefit greatly if they participated in at least once in their life – track and field. Track and field is great not because of its history as one of the oldest forms of physical competition. Track and field is an excellent activity for children because it’s also representative of the ... [Continue Reading]

Lessons About Friendship From The Muppets Most Wanted

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  So I did it again. What exactly did I do? I went to see another “kids” movie. This time I went to see “Muppets Most Wanted”. http://youtu.be/DQiGyBiNjLI Why did I do it? That’s a silly question. I did it for you of course. I threw caution and better judgment to the wind. I risked great personal embarrassment. Let me not even mention ... [Continue Reading]

Just Suck It Up!

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Whether you are a parent or a child, you are probably familiar with the expression “just suck it up”. “Just suck it up” means deal with it and stop complaining. “Just suck it up” is a phrase that parents use to “encourage” children to move forward when things don’t go their way or as planned. Ironically, for as good as parents are at giving this ... [Continue Reading]

Three Reasons Parents Will Be Fond of Mr. Peabody & Sherman

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The other afternoon my son and I went to see Mr. Peabody & Sherman. A more apt description might be that I drug my son, kicking and screaming and twisting his arm to the theater. Time Is Running Out Fairly certain that seeing an animated movie with his old man was not high on my son’s to do list, he indulged me nonetheless. I’m sure that ... [Continue Reading]

What About The Missing Children?

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On March 8, 2014, 227 passengers and 12 crew members on Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared. For the past thirteen days, the missing plane has been the lead news story on just about every media outlet. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has become a universal fascination as one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries. We Are The World The ... [Continue Reading]

Why Everyone But Justin Bieber Deserves A Two-Minute Warning

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Unless you have been living under a rock or have decided to take a break from social media, you are no doubt aware of the plethora of bad news. There is the Malaysia Airlines flight 370 carrying 239 passengers that is still missing. Then there was the incident at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas where 2 people were killed and 23 ... [Continue Reading]