*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on The Washington Post. As soaring tuition scares off many families, a growing number of private colleges have embraced a marketing tactic associated more with selling airline tickets or flat-screen televisions than higher education: a price cut. St. John’s College slashed tuition from $52,734 in this…
Trending Today on Twitter – 1/25/19 1. Roger Stone 2. #MuellerFriday 3. WikiLeaks 4. #MuellerTime 5. Metroid Prime 4 6. Sarah Sanders 7. #FridayMotivation 8. #IndictmentFriday 9. #FridayThoughts 10. Richard Nixon Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 1/25/19 1. Roger Stone 2. Jessica Biel 3. Ted Bundy 4. Real Madrid 5. Wilbur Ross 6….
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on PsychCentral. Using social media does not appear to reduce feelings of loneliness. In fact, it can make you feel more lonely, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion. The findings reveal that social media users do not feel more connected…
Why? Because! Play Why? Because! Gather some slips of paper or index cards, pencils, and two small bowls (to hold the slips of paper). Give each person two slips of paper and a pencil. Ask them to write a question on one that starts with Why? (Why is milk white? Why do I have to…
TBT. . . most of us older folks are clueless on the latest teen slang. There are new words, acronyms used in texting, and a lexicon that’s sometimes motivated by a desire to continue to keep us in the dark. When there is a POS there’s nothing a kid wants more than to keep that……
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on HealthDay. When children are having suicidal thoughts, their parents may often be in the dark, a new study shows. The study included more than 5,000 kids, aged 11 to 17, and one parent for each child. Researchers found that among the children, 8 percent said…
Notable Changes Play a little game to see if your kids can pick out the change each one makes in their appearance. Ask each person to find a partner and look carefully at one another. Then have them turn their back and make a simple change. (It can be as simple as putting a strand…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on ScienceDaily. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin, have found that while many high school peer crowds and influences have remained constant over time, changing demographics, cultural influences and the increasing number of…
Trending Today on Twitter – 1/4/19 1. #FridayFeeling 2. #njwk13 3. #SarcasmIn5Words 4. #FridayMotivation 5. Okada 6. Tanahashi 7. #NationalSpaghettiDay 8. Jericho 9. Naito 10. Jay White Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 1/4/19 1. Andrea Kelly 2. Raptors 3. R Kelly 4. Escape Room 5. Rockets vs Warriors 6. Liverpool 7. NFL Playoffs…
Whenever I’m speaking to parents and/or youth workers about matters related to our Digital Kids Initiative, I am inevitably asked for recommendations regarding blocking software or technologies that can keep kids from danger and danger from kids. I never know how to answer. I’m not up-to-date on these things as new filters and work-around’s seem…