UNMASKING ACCELERATION
How was your child’s 2020 education? In-flight or grounded? If stuck on the ground, what specific factors played into that?
Rollercoaster schedules?
Confusing technology dump?
Educators just as clumsy with all the new tech?
Unnatural virtual interaction?
Impossible to enforce distancing and masking mandates?
Anything else that made you think, “Now what?”
Since 2020, how quickly and effectively did your child's school not only recover, but make up for lost time?
A side benefit of this insanity was the unmasking of some schools’ outrageous curricula. The good news is, by homeschooling and cutting out tons of stuff you disagree with, your child’s education can attain escape velocity from the gravitational pull of the mainstream morass.
During our homeschooling adventure, we tried three of the no-extra-cost state-approved online curricula/academies available to us. These can be fine if you’re mainly interested in controlling the physical schooling environment. But if you want to slash superfluous subjects, then you’ll want to weigh private alternatives.
We dropped the mainstream online schooling for private and even custom curricula. Two of our kids took their ACTs at age 15 and started college while still 15. College admissions aren’t interested in superfluous subjects, either!
Dropping dead weight, our school days were typically 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., allowing plenty of time to focus on a challenging lesson or make up for a sick day.
What’s your confidence that your child’s schooling is reclaiming progress lost? How about when—not if—the next pandemic or similar national emergency strikes? Where childhood years are especially precious for development, why not apply homeschool booster rockets to their educational trajectory?
It's not rocket science.
If you’ve started wondering what else your child’s school might be missing—you’re not alone.
More and more parents are asking: What if there’s a better way to nurture both wisdom and wellbeing?
🔗 Explore how homeschooling might fit your family
HOMESCHOOLING: Haven or Havoc?
Your child's school years are precious and fleeting.
Now could be your best time to step up where your school is letting your child down. Let this series of myth-busting short chapters encourage you.
2 Major Mistakes
Which one will you make?
Which of these 2 retirement mistakes are you making right now? It's impossible to entirely avoid both mistakes.
You won't know for sure which mistake will work out better for you until it's too late.
How to choose?
Finding the Will
(Part 1)
Part 1: Have the will to arrange for a smooth transition when you’re no longer around to answer questions
Have the will to arrange for a smooth transition when you’re no longer around to answer questions (Part 1)
Ensuring your children or other Loved Ones can readily access your important papers when you die entails a sound process versus one or two conversations. You must overcome aversion to the subject of death, procrastination of anything that is long-term, and the tendency to assume things will be fine. Family dynamics can be sweet, spicy, or dicey.
Finding the Will
(Part 2)
Part 2: Getting Organized
While the internet permits convenient access to accounts, policies, and stored documents, it presents a plethora of password management problems. which too many people avoid by succumbing to password laziness, such as:
- re-using passwords for multiple logins, or
- use simple, easy to remember passwords, or
- writing them on sticky notes placed on their monitor or under their keyboard, or
- keeping them in a spreadsheet on their computer, or
- letting their browser remember passwords for them
Embrace Your Clarence
Is Clarence your future?
Golden insight from a golden retriever.
Post-Pandemic W.E.L.L.ness
Working, Earning, Learning, and Launching to Thrive
Where life drastically changed forever two years ago, everyone adjusted to the best of their abilities.
Here are a few of the key adjustments--"pandemic pivots"--that sustained some and prospered others.
Prenuptial Adulting
Equip Them for Happily Ever After
“Mom, Dad, we’re getting married!"
“Wonderful, congratulations! Here’s what you both need to do first.”
Equipping newlyweds with essentials of responsibility leaves plenty of life yet to be discovered on their own. Adults understand that love isn’t oogly feelings; it’s a hard choice. It’s putting your commitments and your money where your mouth is.
Many of the following steps also apply to one’s turning 18 years old. Becoming engaged adds urgency and a deadline.
Rethinking Competing Funds for College and Retirement
We live in a time of skyrocketing inflation topping decades of unbridled higher education costs.
Is the tension between funding your retirement and funding (at least partially) your children’s college education keeping you up at night?
You’re not alone.
Married? Is Your Endgame 100% or Just 50%?
Are you single? That other 50% could be whoever is most important to you.
Multiple unforgiving players factor into your retirement and estate plans (collectively your “endgame”). Household names include the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Key decisions with these players are nearly impossible to reverse. Plus, if you qualify for a pension, how you activate it is another irreversible decision.
Are you more of a planner than your spouse? It’s all too common for one spouse to blindly trust the planning spouse. Countless endgame “plans” were created by 50% of a couple:
