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Who’s your daddy?

On April 1, 2012 By

You can grow up well adjusted and successful as an orphan.

You can grow up well adjusted and successful in a single family home.

You can grow up well adjusted and successful with two moms or two dads.

You can grow up well adjusted and successful with teenage parents.

It’s possible but [...]

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How to raise champions

On March 23, 2012 By

You can raise nice kids.  You can raise smart kids.  You can raise kids who make the varsity teams in high school and win a college scholarship.

But being nice and smart and being on the college swim team does not necessarily make you a champion.

To be world class, to be [...]

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Are American teens fat and lazy?

On January 11, 2012 By

According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, students NEED at least one hour of physical activity per day to stay healthy.

How do Americans teens measure up?

How about eighty-two percent, that is 82%, do NOT get an hour of exercise each day?

Does this make them fat? Maybe.  Sit outside [...]

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Well, you’d work instead.  If you make the national average salary of $45,000, in four years, you’d have $180,000.   If you only made $30,000 a year, you’d have $120,000.

You would have this money and you wouldn’t have between $40,000 and $200,000 in debt.

But what about that college education?

Yah, what about it? [...]

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BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO!

Fifty percent of college grads will not find jobs in their fields of study.

Fifty percent of college grads will NOT be permanently working in their major fields of within five years.

In 2007, the average college grad who could find a job made $46,000.

This year the average [...]

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Are American youth screwed?

On April 9, 2011 By

For many, you’d have to say sadly, YES, THEY ARE SCREWED.

The government has mortgaged their futures.  For the first time in a  hundred years, this generation will not FARE as well as past generations.  This is NOT fair, but this is reality.

Sure, Wall Street is surging but this surge is not trickling down to Continue Reading

How to make BIG money as a teen

On February 17, 2011 By

All work is good.  If you can get a job at a local business, this is good.  Make your own spending money.  Keep your eyes and ears open. 

See the young store manager and figure out how she got the job.

See the 70 year old sweeping the floor and figure out why she [...]

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You’re a BUM!

On January 22, 2011 By

We had a snow storm in Boston.  OK, nothing new there.

We had a snow storm in Boston and the city did a terrible job of removing the snow and plowed in many cars.  OK, nothing new there.

What is this?

This is an excellent opportunity to make mega-bucks for a FEW enterprising youth. 

The [...]

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I went to http://www.CollegeDropOutHallofFame.com to look for a few famous college drop outs who made a lot of money.

There were too many.

I narrowed the search to billionaires.

There were too many.

I stopped at “E.”. 

If I listed the hundreds of billionaires who dropped out of college or never went, [...]

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1.  You like money.  It costs tens of thousands of dollars to attend college.  You don’t see the expense versus return.

2. You don’t like debt.  The average college student leaves school with tens of thousands in student loans.  You’re in a hole before you even start your career.

3. You don’t like to waste time.  College should [...]

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