Suzette1's blog

The harebrained stunt Richard Heene pulled off on TV was the best reality show I’ve seen so far. A good number of non-unionized reality TV script writers would have loved to come up with the flying saucer-with-boy-trapped-in-it plot. Or did they?

“Grab your iPod and go study for the SAT!” I certainly never thought I’d hear myself say this to my college-bound teen since it’s usually the exact opposite coming out of my mouth during study time. Taking advantage of the widespread use of the iPhone and iPod Touch apps, a new vocabulary-building game could be just the thing to help increase any student’s SAT scores.

  Winter's end is near, but we're shivering with anxiety as we look a the calendar and see exam dates starting to line up like a series of storms on a weather map; ominous approaching deadlines for tests any student with dreams of going to college has to take. The relative calm of our 17 year-old high school junior is about to turn into a rainstorm of the El Niño kind: relentless, merciless and abate less for the next three months.

I was driving my daughter and her friends to the mall when I noticed an eerie silence in the car. When I looked behind me, I was surprised to see all four with their heads down and their eyes fixed on their tiny phone screens, fingers furiously pecking at the minute key pads.

The first day of summer is finally here, and your family is enjoying the languid, warm days with little to do. Just a few weeks into this long-awaited break and you hear it. No, I'm not referring to the usual "I'm bored" summer anthem, instead your kids whine, "no, not again!" as the seasonal family reunion looms in the horizon.