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How do you raise effective kids who become effective adults? Ingram presents principles and exercises to develop your child's potential, values, and character while drawing closer to your child.

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This conflict between family and work poses some questions about adult experience itself. How can long-term purposes be pursued in a short-term society? How can durable social relations be sustained? How can a human being develop a narrative of identity and life history in a society composed of episodes and fragments? [...] Richard Sennett
We're all for the afterlife but what are we supposed to do in the meantime? In the middle of too much, too fast, how are we supposed to pay attention to God?
In this second part of the series, Dan Wooldridge tells the story of the second billionaire who, too, lost his legacy. Out of this story he pulls out a lesson on leaving a legacy in the business you have created.

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Thomas Friedman speaks to a network associated with Claremont McKenna College on the thesis of a flat world. Dan Wooldridge records his impressions of the speech as well as some implications for professional and personal development.
Ad Age asks: "Did Wal-Mart overstep its bounds with a holiay website that allows children to build a toy wish list that the retailer e-mails to their parents?
Jim Hancock / Oct 24 2006
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One out of four adults say the internet and cell phones have brought their families closer than their own family of origin.

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John was a successful Christian businessman in his forties. He considered himself a casual drinker and liked to spend time at the bars in the hotels where he stayed. He would say to himself, I will have only one drink tonight, but the truth was that he liked drinking too much to quit after just one. [...] Stephen Arterburn and Sam Gallucci
Dan Wooldridge notes that even in the midst of an economic crisis the innovation and daring vision of entrepreneurs and the long time frame horizon as well as liquid capital of VC's provide hope for the economy.
This survey indicates that small business owners, in spite of sacrifices, achieve a good measure of work-life balance, physical health, have good marriages, and are on track for retirement.
Bradley J. Moore has taken about all the generic Christmas greetings he can stand. And that's that.
Dan Wooldridge reflects on George Gilder's Soul of Silicon essay. Good parenting is the ultimate entrepreneurial act and the most crucial process of a healthy economy.

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The Scriptures communicate significantly about family wealth and capital, an idea largely lost in Christian teaching today.
It's worth noting this Mothers Day that our mothers were partners or sole proprietors in one of the oldest, most widespread commercial enterprises on earth . . . the household.
Bradley J. Moore buys an iPhone for his beloved spouse, leading to contentment, harmony and much learning in the family car. Or something like that.

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"Family, social, and community relationships will likely assume a far greater degree of importance in a world of uncertainly, [...] there will almost certainly be a significant rise in the number of extended-family households Michael J. Panzner
68% of Americans say they can't live without a microwave
35% of Americans say they can't live without a dishwasher
A Pew Research Center report finds that when adults are asked to describe their relationships with their parents and their pets, the pets win.
Jim Hancock / Mar 16 2006
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Stanford Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom talks about priorities and Fast Company recalls James Levine's advice for working fathers.