Business leaders investing in kids as economic strategy
McClatchy Newspapers
9/30/2008, by Joel Dresang
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - A nucleus of Wisconsin business leaders is forming the first state-level affiliate of a national collaboration promoting child development as an economic strategy. Jon Stellmacher, executive vice president and chief administrative officer at Thrivent Financial for ...
Parents saving less for kids' college education
McClatchy Newspapers
9/30/2008, by Carolyn Starks
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Erin Stawarz can easily call her parents to baby-sit or suggest toys for Christmas, but one topic remains taboo: asking them to help pay for their grandchildren's college tuition. "They're saving for their retirement and are assisting in caring for my mom's mom," said ...
Use the Web to find the best bargains in shopping, shipping
McClatchy Newspapers
9/30/2008, by Nicole Paitsel
Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) (MCT) - ShopSmart, a Consumer Reports publication, has compiled a list of seven Web sites that will help you skip the Web surfing and get to the real deals quickly. Here are their picks, which will appear in the November issue. Buzzillions.com. The user-review site ...
Living with children
McClatchy Newspapers
9/30/2008, by John Rosemond
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - A journalist recently asked me to name the No. 1 problem facing today's family. I think she expected me to address education, the economy, or some other "hot" topic. To her surprise, I said, "A confusion of roles." In today's parenting universe, married women with ...
Fall leaves us harvesting delight
McClatchy Newspapers
9/30/2008, by Lori Borgman
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - I have never wavered in my feelings for fall. Even as a child, when asked to draw a picture of my favorite time of year, though classmates would draw beach scenes with golden sand, starfish and curly blue waves, I remained steadfast. I drew trees and more ...
Parents saving less for kids' college education
McClatchy Newspapers
9/29/2008, by Carolyn Starks
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Erin Stawarz can easily call her parents to baby-sit or suggest toys for Christmas, but one topic remains taboo: asking them to help pay for their grandchildren's college tuition. "They're saving for their retirement and are assisting in caring for my mom's mom," said ...
Heroic sisters are for the birds
McClatchy Newspapers
9/25/2008, by Tim Woodward
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Cindy Embree and Christine Lewis have been known to make quacking noises en route to bird emergencies. They keep nets, boxes and blankets in their cars at all times. If such a thing existed, they say they'd have a siren that sounded like a honking goose.
The twin ...
Flawless spring looks for makeup, hair, nails
McClatchy Newspapers
9/25/2008, by Rod Stafford Hagwood
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT) - The New York designer runway shows are more than just glamorous garb. Top hairstylists and makeup artists use the influential catwalk extravaganzas to broadcast beauty trends to the world.
Overall, look for the sheer nude makeup to take off; where skin doesn't ...
Woman honored for donating children's books after Katrina
McClatchy Newspapers
9/22/2008, by Pam Firmin
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Dian Ross of Diamondhead, Miss., will be honored Wednesday at ceremonies in New York for getting new books to Gulf Coast children after Katrina. This was an extension of her ongoing volunteer work at a Hancock County, Miss., food pantry where, since 2003, she has handed ...
Bringing up baby, minus diapers
McClatchy Newspapers
9/22/2008, by Vanessa Willis
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Luciana Ferrante, 3 months, has been using the toilet since she was 5 days old. Mom Jessica, 26, uses "Elimination Communication" to read her daughter's signals and catch her waste in a toilet instead of relying on diapers.
The potty-training method, now called toilet ...
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