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Parents of high school seniors know it’s not only the holiday season right now, it’s college application season as well. Students across the country are looking at colleges to send their applications to and are rushing to take SATs and ACTs. Many parents and teens automatically look into brick and mortar schools, but there is a whole other style of college you and your teen might look into - online education.
Because many divorce cases are actually two cases in one, since the first determines child custody and the second determines property division, there are two standards of proof in these cases as well.
It’s that seminal time of year when important decisions are made regarding the purchase and provision of gifts to boys and girls across the land. And they wait, no doubt, with bated breath.
But who – or what – is the final arbiter of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice?
By most accounts it’s the inimitable Santa Claus, apparently with a bit of help from some snooping elves. The message? Better be on your best behavior lest an elf, or perhaps the big man himself, catches you offguard.
In a time when most kids spent all of their leisure time with several screens in front of them, we expect that kids know how to be safe online better than we do. Kids are the ones creating viral trends, after all, and teaching their tech-illiterate grandparents how to restart the computer. But, when we think about it for longer, we realize that the dangers of the internet still come from people. Regardless of how internet-savvy our kids are, they can still be naive when it comes to people, perhaps even more so than previous generations. Interestingly, millennials are still the
Kids often have an extensive list of gifts they'd like Santa to leave under the tree, and it can be easy to submit to these and choose a few of their more reasonable requests, dutifully purchase them at Target or Amazon, and see their excited faces on Christmas morning when they find Santa really did bring them a Hatchimal, or a Barbie townhouse, or a Nerf Blaster. There is certainly no shame in purchasing your child a toy they wanted, but what about the toys they don't want, or didn't ask for, but perhaps need?
