Last week I met with Nikki Medoro, KFBK journalist and cyber-mom who just launched a parenting blog called: Mama on the Mic.
Medoro is a very dynamic, positive and tech savvy mom who experienced the Internet and mobile phones during her teen years. Her daughter is 18 months old and she also has questions about raising children in the networked world. Who will…
Marie Hall, Executive Director of BeMoneySmartUSA wants to instill in youth the wisdom and knowledge required to build wealth to make their financial future secure.
Ultimately Hall’s aim is to “Sucker-proof” children by instructing them to be money wise, and to think for themselves about what is a good return, not what some big institution tells them.
Dr. Debra Moore is the Clinical Director for Fall Counseling Associates in Carmichael, California. She has observed alarming trends in her business over the last generation.
Moore observes that kids today in general are more stressed as we are multi-tasking with demanding schedules and intense cyber communications of the Internet and mobile phone. “They are over scheduled, over stimulated and constantly multi-tasking.”
And parents are key.
Dr. Debra Moore is the Clinical Director for Fall Counseling Associates in Carmichael, California. She has observed alarming trends in her business over the last generation.
We are all familiar with the tragic headlines of youth such as Phoebe Prince, a high school student in South Hadley, MA who took her life rather than face the bullying that she experienced. And more recently we heard of Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers
Topic: Relationships matter
Today’s cyber-powered connectivity calls into question: what really constitutes a relationship?
“Facebook is really beneficial for staying in touch when friends go away to different colleges,” said Jordan Santos, a Granite Bay High School graduate last summer headed to San Diego…
The Business of Life Series
Pursuit of your dreams and achieving your goals requires organization on your part.
Organizing your life requires you to take charge of the things that are in your control and not allow yourself to become manipulated by the agendas and desires of others.
One big aspect of your life, that requires self-control…
Joanna (jullien@surewest.net) and her husband have raised two sons in Roseville, CA. She has a degree from U.C. Berkeley in Social Anthropology (corporate culture). Her honors thesis was awarded the Kroeber Prize and funding from National Science Foundation grant. Joanna writes to help parents with the modern-day leadership challenges of raising children. She is a contributing writer for The Granite Bay View, the Press Tribune, the Sacramento Examiner, and editor of Banana Moments.
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