Author: livinglovingemptynesting
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Work-Ready Skills to Prepare Your Teen for Employment
Work is an inevitable part of adult life and learning work-ready skills is the primary way to prepare for employment. We all know this as parents. But some teens today live in a fantasy world where they believe they will become a famous influencer or tiktoker allowing them to never have to work a day…
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What Ever Happened to Social Skills?
Have you ever really thought about how our society got to the place it is now…a place where every topic has become divisive? We are a society that praises individuality and at the same time shames or turns against people who don’t think the same. Does this make any sense at all? While you’ve no…
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Mastering Personal Finance Skills
Personal Finance Skills are one of the most important skills you can teach your teen today. This generation of teens and young adults seem to be struggling more than previous generations with this essential skill. Most teens do not grasp the reality of money as they have never known a reality where items can’t be…
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Skills for a Healthy Teen
Too many times we ignore teaching Health & Wellness Skills. Maybe it’s because health & wellness is a difficult subject to discuss, maybe it’s because we struggle with some of these skills ourselves, or maybe it’s because we tried but our teen shuts us out and doesn’t want to talk about these subjects. Whatever the…
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Daily Living Skills For Teens
Of all the life skills to teach teens, Daily Living Skills are the simplest life skills to teach. They are also the most used skills. These are skills that all of us use on a daily or weekly basis. Daily Living Skills can be defined as the routine tasks and behaviors that are essential to…
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Essential Life Skills For Teens
When it comes to trying to teach our teens life skills and prepare them for adulthood it can be downright overwhelming, exhausting, and seem completely impossible!! Teens think they know so much more about life than their parents, but yet, they have no idea how to balance a checkbook statement, unclog the drain, or call…
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Learning To Care For Houseplants
Now that you are an empty nester, you may be looking for new activities to fill your free time. Learning to care for houseplants may be a great activity for you. The reason this may be a great activity for empty nesters is that it allows us something to care for. With our children gone…
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Giving Advice To Your Adult Child…Or Not
Giving advice to your adult child is tricky! Your advice can be well received or it can be disastrous, depending on your child, the situation, or sometimes just the day. I have been on both sides of this situation before. Sometimes my advice to my daughter has been well received. Other times and probably more…
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Baked Raspberry Oatmeal (Perfect for Two)
I’m a breakfast person. I never leave home without it and probably for good reason! I can be a bit cranky if I don’t have a little food in my belly! One go-to for breakfast is always the standard bowl of oatmeal. Oatmeal is very nutritious and filling. However, it can sometimes get a little…
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Beautiful Places in Oregon
As an empty nester, you can reconnect with your child by taking a trip with them. This summer I took a girls’ trip to Oregon with my Mom and daughter. Our first trip since the dreaded COVID hit. It was wonderful to get out and see someplace new. Not only someplace new, but also a…