I was in a restaurant recently and there was a family there with their kids and it was a complete mess! One kid was screaming and throwing food all over the floor, the other kid was crying, the Dad was shooting daggers at the Mom and the Mom was near tears. Instead of taking the kids out to handle the… Read More

  When your kid is in school they make take an accounting course but that is pretty much the end of in. No one bothers to teach them about money management and I find that even more the case in black families. I don’t know why but managing and saving money is not stressed in our heritage. Allison had to… Read More

Unlike a lot of mothers, I was excited when the day came for my daughter to leave for college! I looked at it as the chance for me to become a woman again. I know this sounds crazy since I was always a woman but I mean become a woman in the sense that I could get back to my… Read More

I always had an open discussion policy in my house. At an early age I told my daughter that we could always talk about anything and I would keep an open mind. I feel that it is imperative to the child parent relationship that they feel comfortable talking to you about what is going on in their lives. In order to… Read More

Let me begin by saying I do not under any circumstances condone sex among teenagers but let’s face it, it happens. Millennials have a very cavalier attitude towards sex and they switch partners a lot more frequently than we did. I had the sex talk with my daughter when she was old enough to ask viable questions and I told… Read More