by Melanie Burston | Oct 16, 2020 | 21st Century Skills, Children, Kids, Learning, Technology
Your kids first cell phone is a personal choice and will depend on your family values. Parents should decide what their comfort level is with regard to cell phones, age and the phones use. In this post, there are some personal experiences to help you with your...
by Melanie Burston | Sep 25, 2020 | Children, Kids, Technology
Anyone remember the first successful consumer two-way pager called the “Pageboy?” It was a device that preceded the flip phone made by Motorola. The pager was used to communicate via text message and email with standard responses. You could also connect it...
by Melanie Burston | Aug 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Role Models I grew up in a house that was very career focused – a kidpreneur business would’ve fit in very well in my family, if the concept had existed at the time. (I’ll explain it for you below!) My parents were hard working role models. From the time I can...
by Melanie Burston | Aug 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
How do you teach kids about money? As I started to think about why kids need money, it brought me back to my own childhood and what it meant to learn about and have my own money. To me, it meant that I could plan for the things that I wanted, and it helped me feel...
by Melanie Burston | Aug 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m definitely what I call a “Dreamer” – I’ve spent a lifetime chasing my dreams. When I was a young parent, on an almost daily basis, my children would hear my next dream for THEM. This is the story of how I started holding so tightly to my children’s dreams. You...
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