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Really fun for me to take a look back in time. One of my daughter's coaches who really encouraged her and showed her how to love competing and being a leader now has a HS aged son lifeguarding, while I swim.. It was my great pleasure telling him how much his dad contributed to my daughters...

I would say it's up to the individual what they want to do. There will be many "unfun" events and tenants so your child needs to really want to do it. I would pick landlord friendly states, I would be careful about STRs as the local city councils or Hoa's can pass ordinances with very little...

off topic a bit, sorry, please get your kids to start their Roth IRAs as soon as they have any paid job. This tax free self directed fund will stay with you for your whole life growing tax free, and depending on future tax laws , but one has been able to roll directly yours upon death into...

1. Read a lot. You can read Value Line through the library online Data Base. My h reads the WSJ and Barrons regularly. There's a lot of books too. 2. Use what you know. If someone raves about a product or service, look it up. Read about it. Medical products, tests, paint, home automation...

Also Sea Cadets has a really nice curriculum of activities. Sea Cadets is through the Navy League . There is also a Sea Scouts that is through Scouting. We have both in our community and I didn't realize the difference at one time but I think Sea Cadets are terrific. My younger daughter was...

We had the GET. (WA). It is tied to Fafsa so your college needed to be on the Fafsa list. Academies aren't. My husband couldnt figure out how it could be used for certain expenses after a lot of study..so we didnt use it. She had to use it by age 28. She didn't want it to go to waste so she...

One last comment in response to the comment re quality of math in schools. My younger got one of her degrees in general math (BA). One course taken was a senior level course designed or required for math ed majors. At the end they had to do a 30 minute biography presentation on a...

My experience is old as my kids are done with college and both have MSs. My first one needed both math and vocab prep. She read a lot but didn't seem to test well. She wasn't young for her grade... I found a number of those prep books in thrift stores untouched (!)and offered her 1/2 the money...

I'm going to be a little cautious since I don't want to say the wrong thing inadvertently. My daughter tells me the AF is smaller than you think. Also no military background in our family so I don't know the acronyms. Anyway these days I have been thinking back to the kids school days because I...

I'm glad to see the Sea Cadets mentioned here as I followed this thread. My eldest , who attended Usafa, and is a major now, mainly participated in what my mom called "being a good citizen, or being active and volunteering in your community". They didn't refer to it a leadership back then. As a...

M y daughter got the pretty pink stone in her ring, it cracked just a few months after it was out of warranty, within a few years of graduation.I'm not sure what she has decided to do yet. The funny thing wasabout her gorgeous wedding ring, custom designed, with a lovely large stone plus other...

My daughter got 2 minors at Usafa and really enjoyed the variety it brought to her education. She originally started in economics then changed to Foreign area studies. Her first Masters was in Accounting and she said the early math background made the accounting go better. ( even though she...

My daughter also studied Russian at the academy (she got assigned the language as she was an Economics major at the time) (she later graduated in Foreign Area studies plus a Philosophy minor and another minor...) I was quite worried as she had struggled with Spanish and had switched to Latin...

Thanks for the care package suggestions. One of the books I was sending was this one... No One Would Listen by Harry Markopolos This is a quick sort of easy read about Madoff and how the scheme was discovered (belatedly) by crunching numbers and using some math algorithms to check the yields...

Feedback! The SIL arrived home safely just before Christmas and I spoke with him to make sure the two packages arrived in time... He said he was very appreciative and reading between the lines it sounded like an 'event' for him to share with his crew. The first one contained some homemade...

Wow, here you go! There's some different companies so I think plenty to choose from . I heard from my SIL he said he would love to have books on kindle as he is in his plane for 10 hours--. So I will pick out some other titles he can use on his kindle. fyi, the paperback books we chose are...

thanks for information, the package is on it's way. The USPS gives a $1 discount off the large flat fee box for military so it's about $17 ish to send it. My daughter encouraged me to send something homemade as she said they are arriving in about 8 days she thought. So I sent some cookies...

Thank you thank you! Those are great ideas and it helped to reaffirm those items before I went out and purchased a bunch of things (that we don't use ourselves) ..I did think of one more item (we're in the NW) , smoked salmon, in the foil pouches, that travels well and goes great with...

We want to send a care package to our SIL who is currently deployed to in the middle east as a pilot. (until January) I figured a lot of the normal suggestions are out of date and I haven't heard of many suggestions lately. The lists contained a lot of food items like snacks- granola bars...

This is a delightful thread and I really like the post directly above. My AF daughter is a third generation female college grad, but there's no comparison to the opportunities she has now considering previous generations. My mom had a business degree, but if you were female back then (post...