We want our kids to have a variety of experiences and provide them with opportunities to explore their interests and abilities. So we enroll them in music lessons, sports, scouting and other extra curricular activities. But when does this become too much? Yes, there are benefits to team sports like...

Is your child a natural entrepreneur? Does she sell more Girl Scout cookies than other girls her age? Has he cornered the market on lawn mowing in your neighborhood? A young man I know established a coffee roasting business when he was 13 years old. He’s moved on to selling his photography on the...

Contrary to Cyndi Lauper's popular song, girls don't just want to have fun, girls want to do lots of things. They want to use their brains, explore their environments, make a difference, create things and help people. The number of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields is...

If you grew up in the 1970s you probably thought manufacturing was dirty, dumb and dangerous. Your mom probably didn’t encourage you to follow that career path. “Go to law school. Get an MBA. Become a doctor or marry a doctor,” was probably her advice. That was then, this is now. Today,...