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Weekly Update: May 23, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

Managers who want promotions are taking on multiple foreign assignments (which is one reason why our kids need to learn foreign languages!)

H-P plans to cut 30,000 jobs, though none of them are in China…

…meanwhile, Chinese kids take their studies to an extreme.

Can young adults give up tech for an hour a day?

Here’s a passionate argument for keeping your children out of school.

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On

School punished by U.S. government with a $15,000 fine (thus cutting fine arts programs) for accidentally selling soda pop during lunch hour.

You Can Say That Again!

You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. (Stephen Ambrose)

So, how are you preparing your children to thrive in the 21st century? Check out the links to the left for articles and information that will help you.

See you next Wednesday,

Barbara Frank
www.thrivinginthe21stcentury.com

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Weekly Update: May 9, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

Yikes! Total U.S. student loan debt has crossed the $1 trillion mark.

It’s not very comforting to know that most of the slight increase in jobs created by U.S. companies over the past two years is for jobs found in other countries.

Meanwhile, factory orders have fallen off a cliff (largest decline in three years!)

Some believe many jobs are gone for good, so make sure your kids are prepared to work for themselves!

Hmmm…school is no place to create innovators. Where have I heard that before? (Right here.)

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On

Nothing gets kids’ attention like being lined up and fired at by a teacher with a handgun loaded with blanks.

You Can Say That Again!

To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

So, how are you preparing your children to thrive in the 21st century? Check out the links to the left for articles and information that will help you.

See you next Wednesday,

Barbara Frank
www.thrivinginthe21stcentury.com

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Weekly Update: April 18, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

Some say the job market is getting weaker…

…while others say it’s a great year for new college grads to find jobs.

Meanwhile, in other areas of our economy, things are still slow.

Tots really don’t need to learn computer coding…

…but these first-graders are having some success with computers as learning tools.

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On
Homeschooling means knowing your kids will get the lunch you fixed for them, not the one some government official thinks they should eat.

You Can Say That Again!
Home-based education is not an experiment. It’s how people learned to function in the world for centuries. And there is no reason to think people today can’t do the same thing. School is the experiment, not the lack of it, and the experiment is in trouble. (Wendy Priesnitz)

So, how are you preparing your children to thrive in the 21st century? Check out the links to the left for articles and information that will help you.

See you next Wednesday,
Barbara Frank
www.thrivinginthe21stcentury.com

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