River of useful informationWe live in a nice neighborhood, but my son has begun making friends with kids who are disrespectful and don’t seem to care much about school. I’m afraid of the influence these kids are having on him.
Recently, my high school daughter came home and cried in her room over getting a B on a test. I want her to always be her best, but she is so hard on herself it worries me. What can I do to help her?
Along with traditional holiday notions of turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy comes another holiday custom: eating ‘way too much’ and feeling bloated and sick.
My husband and I are receiving a $75,000 gift. We’re both in our late 20s, and we plan to invest the money in mutual funds for children’s college tuition (no kids yet) and/or for retirement. I wonder if, once we’re ready to buy funds, we should meter out our purchasing — do some dollar cost [...]
A year ago this week, this column posed the question: Should you quit your job to join a dot-com? At the time, I concluded that “unproven business models, spotty revenues, and uncertain guarantees regarding long-term survival make a dot-com career one of the riskiest around.”
My daughters’ school allows the children to watch TV for an hour and a half each Friday as a reward for working hard during the week. We limit our children’s TV time at home, and I’m wondering if this is just a way to give the teachers a break. What do you think?
Roland explains that every bottle from every lot is counted and immediately lot numbered and catalogued. It is then assigned a batch number so that every step along the way in production is recorded. This quality control system will help to identify and isolate a problem, if one occurs. In the event of a recall, [...]
When Roland Gahler joined the family’s herb business in 1972, he had no idea that the company would become one of the major herb and vitamin suppliers in Canada. Natural Factors has come a long way. The last 25 years have brought unimagined success to Western Canada’s first herbal products distributor, but Roland remembers the [...]
Cheer isn’t seasonal. It’s not found inside a liquor bottle or even a holiday package. It’s found inside the heart. We all respond to cheer.
Think of Father’s Day not only as an occasion to honor Dad, but as an opportunity to show him how well he raised you. These thoughtful gifts should convince him: Fix it so that premium beer, cigars, coffee or wine arrive on Dad’s doorstep every month. A two- to 12-month subscription to a Merchant Direct [...]