Family Management
Starting a college savings account....finding (and paying for!) child care...and keeping your home organized...here are some ideas for keeping the train on the rails!
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ParentMap and Verity Credit Union bring you helpful family financial planning and money management information. This month: Things to Consider About Switching Banks. When most people think about switching banks, the task of migrating accounts seems daunting. No matter how much they want to leave th
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Before kids, Lorraine Wilde had a great job managing supplies for a chemistry lab in Bellingham, a vibrant college town. It was the kind of job she’d trained for when she earned her master’s degree in environmental science, the kind of job she thought she’d have forever. But her plans changed in a h
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ParentMap and Verity Credit Union bring you helpful family financial planning and money management information. This month: Teaching Kids the Value of Saving. We all have that friend (or maybe you’re “that friend”) who when she found out she was pregnant promptly went out and set up a savings accou
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Each day as a parent you wear a variety of hats: mom/dad, spouse, employee, household CFO, chef, chauffeur, etc., and with each of these hats comes the requirement to juggle and prioritize different responsibilities, inputs, and schedules. As professional organizers, we at Innovatively Organized con
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In this day and age of digital information processing and storage, you would think that our paper piles would be far smaller and more manageable than they used to be. However, for many families, that is just not the case. Do you have towering mounds of paper around your house, blanketing every avail
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ParentMap and Carter Subaru have partnered to bring you helpful content related to car safety and maintenance. This month: Car-buying tips for the family's toughest customer: Mom. Women are often referred to as their husband’s “better half.” Sure, Dad deserves plenty of “better half” props himse
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When the green movement began in April 1970, marked by the first earnest Earth Day celebrations, much was still unknown about what changes we should be making to become more environmentally conscious. Over the past 40 years, so much research and creativity has been spun into green thinking, technol
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An interview with Marty Jacobs, MSW and Family Services Director at Child Care Resources What services does Child Care Resources provide? Child Care Resources is an agency that has been around for about 20 years and our mission is to make sure that all children have a great start in life. Our main
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