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Money Matters: Reducing Financial Conflict for Parents
Most of us are familiar with that old adage “Opposites attract.” Turns out it might not only be true of our personality traits, but our financial styles, too. According to a 2009 study of married couples by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan and Northwestern Univer
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2012 Golden Teddy Winners: Parenting Resources
Parent Education Class or Program Winner: Hop to Signaroo Hop to Signaroo snags top honors again this year for helping parents give their tykes the gift of communication — before they can talk. Founder and instructor Nancy Hanauer, a credentialed teacher with more than 20 years of experience tea
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Things to Consider About Switching Banks
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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Opting Back In: The Pros and Cons of Returning to Work After Kids
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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Teaching Kids the Value of Saving
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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Top 5 Apps for Helping Busy Families Stay Organized
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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Home Organization: Expert Tips on Managing Household Papers
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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Mother Shops Best: Top 10 Tips for Confident Family Car Shopping
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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