News Roundup
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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…
- Refinery29 tested whether or not their staff could tell the difference between $20 and $200 jeans (video).
- The New York Times looks at a plan for saving for your kid’s college tuition — it comes from a financial adviser in Wisconsin.
- Also from The New York Times: A new kind of drug prevention program is finding success where efforts like D.A.R.E. and Just Say No failed.
- Author Michael Chabon writes about his son Abe, “the prince of fashion,” in GQ.
- In the Washington Post’s On Parenting, a working mom explains how she got her daughter to tell her about her day at school.
- A recent article in The Atlantic reads, ”Whether consciously or subconsciously … educators, psychologists, and parents themselves are noticing that parents are increasingly swapping out the term [daycare] for the more in-vogue ‘school.'”
- Did anyone out there actually like middle school? NPR reports on a new study that seems to suggest we just get rid of it. The study showed that 6th graders do better in K-8 schools vs. 6-8 or 6-12 schools, where they’re the youngest kids.
- The blogger behind Laughing without Limits wrote about a decision that Target has now, thankfully, reversed — the chain started offering kid-sized shopping carts. (Nooooooooo!)
- For your Laugh of the Week, from The Ugly Volvo: realistic Meetup groups for moms.
Do be sure to check out the news update over at Corporette!
On Corporette Recently…
- We talked about boycotting companies because of your personal beliefs.
- Kat explained how to buy a blazer to keep at the office and shared a busy woman’s guide to last-minute cleaning.
- We discussed coloring books for adults.
- Tales from the Wallet tackled building wealth in your 20s and 30s.
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Is anyone else just like, not saving for college? We are saving money for my kid, but I refuse to put it in a 529 or any other vehicle geared towards college savings.
Tuition just seems to be out of control. I know we won’t qualify for financial aid, and have no idea of scholarships or other items will be feasible. And I don’t see college as being worth the $500K plus that it would cost if things keep in the current direction (possibly $1 million at current price increase trends). Even state school tuition is skyrocketing in many states. I’d rather spend that $500K moving to a country with a cheaper education system and sending her to college there, buying my child a franchise so that she can learn business on the ground, or funding any other educational endeavor she could come up with, including a community college to see if college is what she wants without spending $100k a year to test out that decision.
And just to put this in perspective, my family is HUGE on education. Practically ever relative on my side is a teacher. My husband and I have multiple college and graduate degrees between us. We love to read books, go to museums, attend lecture series, etc. But I just don’t see the point of spending half a million dollars or more on a 4-year degree. My own university, which I loved, now has a yearly cost of attendance exceeding $70K a year. My degree was worth a lot to me, but not that much.