Bad Landords: You Pay, They Prey

Relationships between landlords and tenants are naturally tense: tenants buy the use of someone else’s home for a fixed period of time, and it’s all fine and good until something breaks or gets damaged. Tenants want quick repairs and a stable, safe place to live. Landlords want to minimize costs, steady income and the ability [...]

How to Register and Vote in the 2008 General Election

Wondering how to register and where to vote? Use this easy tool to register to vote, request an absentee ballot and find your polling place — for every state and locale in the US. It will only take about 3 to 5 minutes to complete the process. You can also register online to vote at [...]

Fertility Woes and Baby Hopes

By Heidi Pfister I was deleting my old email drafts and came across this almost two- year old email, which I never actually sent to the intended recipients…don’t know why. Now my baby, Penelope, will be one year old in about a month, which makes it even more amusing to read than if I had [...]

Children Learn More When Parents Listen

A recent study shows something that most parents already know: listening to your child helps them solve problems better. “The basic idea is that it is really effective to try to get kids to explain things themselves instead of just telling them the answer,” says Bethany Rittle-Johnson, the study’s lead author. “Explaining their reasoning, to [...]