Family Bond Paper™

Perhaps some of you, like me, have a daughter who has pursuits to attend college, or desires to move away for their first job opportunity. To a Daughter Leaving Home When I taught you at at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away on two round wheels, my own mouth rounding in  surprise when you pulled ahead down the curved  path of the park, I kept waiting for the thud of your crash as I sprinted to catch up, while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance, pumping, pumping for your life, screaming with laughter, the hair flapping behind you like a handkerchief waving goodbye. -- Linda Pastan Look what our attitude of  American finance systems have done--productively allowed the labels or identification of our most highlighted social dysfunctions towards money. A Song in the Front Yard I've stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back where it's tough and untended and hungry weed grows.  A girl gets si...

Tweet Summary for May "And You, Your Point of View Is__?"  is an opportunity for an online, open class-style audience, to ponder of topic tweets which may or may not be factual. Host: Sherlene Stevens. Sponsor Associate: A Time To Learn Academy. Tweet Show, follow @atimetolearn   Daily Tweet Show Eight out of ten moms work in the U.S. Not all females want to own a business or work at all, and that's okay. No one says, "Okay, God, I want to be born into a generational-cursed family." Four out of ten moms are the earners in the household. There are preachers, in other countries, whose sermons are prepared for them--by their country leader or president. Cubans [females] are learning how to hold baby showers at their dwellings. Ladies we must practice discretion; "Saying and doing the right thing in the right way at the right time." How many, Ladies, have the same number of kids that your mothers had? Or do you have more? Some count...

Source: S. Yager, "How Women Change Men." ( The Atlantic,  December 2013) See article for studies analysis. Most interesting points from the article, Did you know that Male CEOs, with firstborn daughters, actually pay their employees more, giving female employees the biggest raises? Male CEOs typically pay their employees less and themselves more after having sons? Men who have daughters also grow less attached to traditional gender roles? Having a sister, makes most men more supportive of traditional gender roles, more conservative politically, and less likely to perform housework? Men with stay-at-home wives tend to disapprove of women in the workplace, judge organizations with more female employees to be operating less smoothly, and show less interest in applying to companies led by female executives. They also, more frequently, deny promotions to qualified women? Working with women, on the other hand, can encourage egalitarianism (belief in human equality in mos...

From the Editor For the month of May, I will be hosting Honoring All Women Month.   It is a time when I discuss specific topics targeted to women. I so enjoy the opportunity, and bonding time that we share during this hosted event. There is nothing like sisters getting together in a room to just chit chat.  This year's theme is "Ladies, young and old, come into the kitchen." As your family bonding consultant, it would be unfair of me to host my shows or even to write articles, books, etc.  focusing only on one gender. If there were no male and female relationships, how did all these little people get on this earth? I am a fourth generational, black, American citizen whose family holds a lot of history of being a part of this wonderful continent of North America.  When I created my company brand, in my home state of Maryland, I made a promise that all of my show topics and literature would be for both females and males. Al...