As a kid, most of your summer is spent at the pool or outside.  The extra hours of sun mean extra hours of play time after dinner and you are sure to use every bit of it. It is part of being a kid.

Dr. Vernon Sondak says that on average about three fourths of our total exposure to sun occurs by the age of 18 with the ...   more »

This summer travelers will be hitting the road with some of the top new gadgets available for cars making that drive to your favorite vacation spot more enjoyable and efficient. Human navigators sharing the front seat with giant paper maps, short tempers and reams of mapquest directions are being supplemented with gadgets. Car bingo and the license plate spotting game are being replaced with a plastic container filled ...   more »

Margaret Ross, Kamaron Institute founder was recently featured in Associated Press news story about teen violence.

BY MEGAN K. SCOTT
ASSOCIATED PRESS

One young man had a history of depression and drug abuse. Another was said to closely follow the Columbine case and reject help from counselors. And a fight at school appears to have provoked a third.

Three shooting rampages in a one-week span have refocused attention on troubled ...   more »

In the past decade, there has been a sharp increase in the number of youth using the internet as a mean of educational research. But does this mean death for brick and mortar libraries? Not at all!

In a recent joint study with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Pew Internet and American Life Project, they found that surprisingly the youngest adults are the heaviest library users ...   more »

The internet has become a vital educational resource for America’s youth.  A Pew Internet and American Life Project Study reports that 94 percent of online youth say they use the internet for school research, 71 percent of online teenagers cited the internet as the source they relied on the most in completing projects and 78 percent claim the internet helps them with school work.

Stuck on a homework ...   more »

With the ushering in of a new year, many of us decide there are a few things this year we want to do different from last.  But it seems that more people break their New Year’s resolutions than keep them.  What makes the difference for those who keep them than those who break their resolutions? Click the below link to get some quick advice on how to keep ...   more »

Many may have thought this or even asked this question.  If you have a mortgage with a lender that is not doing so hot and their stock price has tanked, does that hurt you?  The answer is no.  You are not really at risk although it could be an inconvenience but not really a risk.

The number 1 lender out there getting lots of attention is Countrwide.  There was an article ...   more »

India has become the place for companies to outsource their work over the last several years.  Now Indian companies like Infosys Technologies are beginning to outsource some of their outsourcing work to other counties...

Some analysts compare the strategy to Japanese penetration of auto manufacturing in the United States in the 1970s. Just as the Japanese learned to make cars in America without Japanese workers, Indian vendors are learning to ...   more »