Category: Culture
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Young Entrepreneurs Unite!
The Kids Craft Fair at the Boys and Girls Club What if you could find a school that would teach your child applied creativity, organizational skills, project management, math, money skills, entrepreneurship, social skills, and marketing… all in three hours? Look no further than the annual Kids Craft Fair at the Boys and Girls Club…
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Living the California paradox
When it comes to our vehicle choices, I don’t call our family a paradox; I call us the new paradigm. Americans had a good, long love affair with the gas engine, and that’s coming to an end. We used to think of driving as entertainment, and that, too, is coming to an end. What starts…
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Liar, liar, pants on fire!
On my morning walk, it occurred to me to think about why we tell kids not to lie. I can’t imagine why this subject occurred to me! Obviously, none of us wants our kid to be a liar. Imagine: If being a liar weren’t that big a deal, we’d be a lier. But we’ve even…
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On the other side of the free range
Everyone now knows that helicopter parenting is bad, but our culture continues to load guilt, and consequences, on moms who give their children some freedom.
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The benefits of being small
I moved to Santa Cruz from San Francisco. I had always wanted to live in San Francisco, and I loved it, but my future husband was a Santa Cruzan to the core. So I packed up my piano, guitars, and the wool sweaters I’d never use again and moved down to a foggy beach town…