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10 Ways To Pay For College
Brian Sacks
June 13, 2024
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HEALTH
Your Mental Health Affects Your Heart Health
Restful Not Stressful – Tips to practice gratitude and relieve stress
Gratitude – or thankfulness – is a powerful tool that can reduce levels of depression and anxiety and improve sleep.
read full article
YOUR MARRIAGE
Making Your Marriage Work
Marriage, like all partnerships, requires effort. In the United States, an estimated 50% of marriages end in divorce, and about 33% find it challenging to maintain romantic relationships. As I look back over the 57 years I was married, I think about the “glue” that kept it together.
WHAT “INGREDIENTS” ARE NEEDED TO MAKE MARRIAGE WORK?.
FINANCE AND INVESTING TIPS FOR THE SANDWICH GENERATION
10 Strategies Parents Are Using to Pay for Their Kids' College
The vast majority of parents plan on helping their child pay for college — but less than half know how they’ll cover the cost.
Findings in a new survey from student loan provider College Ave show that parents really do want to support their kids in getting college degrees.
Among the 1,000 parents of current college students surveyed, 93% said they intend to pitch in to pay for college, and 75% said they’ve set aside some savings for that purpose.Of the parents who have been stashing away money for college, the average amount saved is $45,000. That's laudable but probably not enough.
It’s less than half the full price for one year of tuition, room and board and fees at the nation’s most expensive universities, where costs now top $90,000 annually.That $45,000 also won’t cut it at schools where prices are more reasonable: According to the education nonprofit College Board, the total cost of attendance for the 2023-2024 school year averaged $28,840 at four-year public colleges for in-state students ($46,730 for out-of-state) and $60,420 at four-year nonprofit private colleges.
Here's how parents can set social media limits for their kids
-Monday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy urged Congress to require social media platforms to carry a label — similar to those found on tobacco products — warning of the mental health consequences associated with using social media, particularly for young people.
“Evidence from tobacco studies show that warning labels can increase awareness and change behavior,” Murthy wrote. He added that such a label “would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe.”
Murthy’s warning follows two reports from the American Psychological Association addressing social media use. “It’s really tragic that parents are needing to [take these measures] rather than policymakers and the platforms making [social media] safe on their own,” Mitchell Prinstein, chief science officer of the APA, tells Yahoo Life.
What the APA says about social media
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CARING FOR PARENTS
DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE PLACEMENT AGENCIES?
When my mother needed to tranistion to an assisted living facility I spent alot of time looking at different places … it was almost like a full time job over a 2 week period hoping I would make the right decision.
I wasn’t aware that there were placement agencies that can do all of the legwork for you and then help you narrow down communities that would be a good fit.
But best of all - the service is free to you since the community pays the placement company- sort of like looking at rentals with a real estate agent.
However- you still need to be careful. As with anything there are good and bad companies!
I just saw this article about a national placement company that seems to be in a bit of trouble. Might be best to check different agencies before you start.
read it here
YOUR JOB
What Parents and Child Care Providers Want Their Elected Leaders to Know.
Child care concerns have reached a boiling point for parents and providers, and it’s become increasingly difficult for families to afford essentials like health care and housing. Those are among the top findings outlined in a special anniversary report from the RAPID Survey Project at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, which highlights data from a survey that asked caregivers of young children what they want their policymakers to know about how they are doing and what they need. RAPID has received almost 30,000 responses. The report comes as a U.S. presidential election — one that RAPID leaders say has major implications for children and families — looms less than five months away. It also comes nearly four years after the RAPID project’s launch in April 2020. Since then, more than 20,000 parents of children under age 6 and nearly 7,000 child care providers — spanning all 50 states, a range of child care settings, and both English and Spanish language speakers — have responded to RAPID’s monthly surveys. The findings provide intimate, continuous snapshots of the experiences and emotional states of the adults who are most present in the lives of young children. |
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