Posts Tagged ‘practical skills’

Weekly Update: May 2, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

Thanks to public outrage, the U.S. Dept. of Labor is forced to shelve an edict that would keep kids from doing farm chores.

Kids with practical skills will have an edge if the grid goes down.

A famous bubble-predictor said we’re in a “Late Great Depression,” but backed off the next day. What do you think?

Income can quickly plummet, which is why it’s so important to raise money-smart kids.

College waitlists are longer than ever due to economic uncertainties.

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On

Far fewer required credits (170 vs. 230) and making electives optional is apparently meant to balance out tougher standards for Los Angeles high school graduates.

You Can Say That Again!

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
(Mark Zuckerberg)

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

Subscribe to these weekly updates via RSS or email: see your options in the top right corner.

Weekly Update: April 11, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

How the Internet promotes true education, by the always thought-provoking Fred Reed.

Here’s a great little tool that will give you the true total cost of attending a specific college.

More young entrepreneurs are leaving the U.S.

Some schools are (finally!) promoting practical skills again.

Employers say: “No matter what your degree is, you need to be computer system-literate, and your scientists and engineers need to be able to communicate.” (Yes, those are two of the Seven Strengths needed for Thriving in the 21st Century!)

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On

Homeschooling means never worrying that your teacher moonlights as an Internet porn star.

You Can Say That Again!

To put a kid with an IQ of 150 in the same room with a barely literate affirmative-action hire clocking 85 is child abuse. (Fred Reed)

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

Subscribe to these weekly updates via RSS or email: see your options in the top right corner.

Weekly Update: January 25, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

Learning a trade is still a very smart move, especially in the new economy.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is now a homeschool dad.

Community colleges offer useful classes, but students must be motivated enough to get through them.

A backlash against putting pressure on children to excel (think Tiger Mom) is brewing.

Saab is the latest big company to fail; who will be next? Here are some possibilities.

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On

Math isn’t that hard to teach; why must schools resort to weak and controversial methods to do so?

Parents Who Didn’t Get the Memo

Sharing lollipops to get the chicken pox over with? Not smart.

You Can Say That Again!

Bring production back home. You want Chinese and Indonesian or Vietnamese to make you stuff so that multi-nationals can ship it back to you and you can buy it at a low price and low quality and with that low quality and low price comes everyday paying low quality jobs? Keep doing that or go back to the model when you were making more money and you could really live a comfortable middle class life when you were making products at home, when quality, not bottom line, counted, when style mattered. (Gerald Celente)

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

Subscribe to these weekly updates via RSS or email: see your options in the top right corner.

« Older Entries

Posts Tagged ‘practical skills’

Weekly Update: May 2, 2012

Weekly Update: April 11, 2012

Weekly Update: January 25, 2012

Must Reads

Economic Insights

Educate Your Children

Educational Resources

Oldies but Goodies

Special Reports (pdf)

How can we as parents prepare our children for success in this growing maelstrom that many are now calling “the new normal”?

Recent Posts

Archives

In Case You Were Looking

Tags

Links

Blogroll

Authors

Meta