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The way my mom imagined it, midlife was going to be great: counting down days until retirement, spending winters in Florida and checking off destinations on her bucket list. But it hasn’t turned out that way. Instead of more time spent in Florida, she’s still stuck in snowy upstate New …

Posted July 21, 2019 08:36:17 Photo: Chrissie and Doug Nichol pay $50,000 annually in boarding fees for children Adele and Josh. (ABC Great Southern: Mark Bennett) Remote and rural parents paying about $25,000 annually in boarding school fees as part of their child‘s education say the state and federal governments …

Swimming is a very important survival skill for children. Cathy Bennett, Michael Phelp’s former swimming instructor and director of the Michael Phelps Foundation, shares these four tips on how to help your child become a good swimmer: Practice during baths Baths are the perfect time for children to expose themselves …

FREEPORT, TX (KTRK) — She may only be seven years old, but Abigail Arias knows her way around at the Freeport Police Department. Abigail, who has an incurable form of cancer, captured hearts earlier this year when her dream came true. She was sworn in as an honorary Freeport Police …

A couple’s daughter was denied admittance to Parkview Christian Academy after the school learned the parents are in a same-sex marriage. Brittney Ready said their daughter, Callie, was on a waiting list for the day care. After they received a call about an opening, the couple went to visit the …

Elly and Fnu (not their real names) came to the United States in 1999, fleeing religious and political persecution in their home country of Indonesia. They are ethnic Chinese and Christian and were living in a country where both groups were major targets during deadly riots in 1998 set off …

A child was denied admission into a Central Texas daycare after the center learned her parents are in a same-sex marriage. Brittany Ready said in a Facebook post that her daughter, Callie, was denied admission to Parkview Christian Academy in Waco because of her marriage to her wife, Stacey, and …

GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) Texas spent more than $9 million in signing bonuses in 2018 as the state’s prisons tried to deal with staff shortages but little changed and the state’s 104 prisons still are less than safe places to work. But that’s not so much the case in Gatesville. The …

My wife and I have two kids, both under 14. Like most parents, we don’t want them to suffer from financial anxiety when they’re older. Nor do we want them to be in debt and have to eat into our retirement savings. The same way we want them to understand …

July seems to be an appropriate month to write about what we in education call “the summer slide.” This term refers to the widely held perception that during the summer students lose a rather substantial amount of the knowledge they accumulated throughout the school year. While this phenomenon refers to …