A guide to 529 education tuition savings plans; what they are, what they’re for, and who can start putting money into one.
Category: Parenting
Delegate, Delegate, Delegate.
Estate planning lawyer, Megan Gebhardt, shares about the purpose and significance of the Durable Power of Attorney document.
Your Kids Are Not Too Young
BY SHAWNA GAMACHE (Estimated reading time: 6 minutes) Like a lot of white people raised in the 80s and 90s, I grew up learning racism was bad. Racists were evil and would make themselves known through the blatantly terrible things they said and did. My job as a good white person would be to speak up when this happened. Besides…
Building Parenting Confidence in the Time of Coronavirus
Six families share about how their virtual PEPS group was a lifeline for connection and support.
Pandemic Parenting: A Look Forward to Fall
How are parents carrying the burden of everyday parenting, jobs, remote learning, while aiming to balance screen time with physical and mental health – all during a pandemic? One local parent shares with us the community and sense of connection she is relying on…
Our Mission: Save Lives
Water safety can literally save a life. Read on how one mother’s personal experience has inspired her to start a nonprofit organization focused on water safety and drowning prevention.
How early parenthood prepared me for quarantine
I’ve never lived through a pandemic before. But like all parents, I know what it’s like to have my world shrink. My world used to be much tinier than this, those first weeks after I had each baby when I barely left my bedroom, and the months afterward when even a walk down the street sometimes seemed impossible.
The quarantine’s tight intimacy has been strangely familiar, so sweet and so suffocating at the same time. Thanks to those early baby years, I know what it’s like to have my world close in on me and my children, and how to re-craft my expectations around those new boundaries. Luckily, this time around, I have that past experience to guide me.
2 Ways to Keep Your Family Safe In and Around Water
When it comes to playing in and around the water, there are two things families can do to keep children and adults safe and save lives.
5 Tips to Keep You and Domestic Workers Safe and Healthy
National domestic employers network, Hand in Hand, recently partnered with the National Domestic Workers Alliance to answer questions and provide resources around (re)hiring nannies, caregivers, house cleaners, and other domestic workers with one goal in mind: to safely bring employees into work while keeping them and employing families safe.
Stitching Community, One Mask at a Time
In this way, a quarter of quilting fabric and bobbins of leftover thread became something much bigger: a project to unite our family in an uncertain time. We pored over pictures of loved ones wearing the masks we made, our scraps and stitches forming an amulet for them to wear into this new world.