Are you worried about paying for your child's college education? We have a tip to help you start saving for college with one simple step you can do today.| Busy Mommy Media
National 529 Day gives you a great chance to jump start your college savings with a matching contribution from ScholarShare.| Busy Mommy Media
Did you get a late start saving for your child’s college education and now it feels overwhelming? Saving for college is easier when you start early, but if you got started later, there are still quite a few options. When it comes to savings, time definitely works to your advantage. Sometimes it just doesn’t work out though, so you have to work with the time you have.| Busy Mommy Media
September is National College Savings Month and the perfect time to evaluate where you are at with your college savings goals. As a mom of 6, saving for college is something that has been on my mind from day one. Other than buying a house, college has been our biggest (and most stress-inducing) savings goal. Fortunately, there are some great way to break this goal into smaller pieces and we have some great ideas to help you do that.| Busy Mommy Media
Saving for college can be a bit of a daunting task. Why not make it a team effort? I've always looked at saving for college as an education in itself. Before I send my kids off to school I want them to know one very important lesson: how to work.| Busy Mommy Media
Are you the parent of a college student? As you send your child back to college after the holidays there are probably all kinds of things you are worried about: Does your child have the supplies she needs for each class? Are they going to starve to death at college? Is his dorm room equipped with the basics? Will they actually call home like they promised/ One thing you may not have considered is something that we think is a MUST for every college student: an Amazon Prime Student membership.| Busy Mommy Media
Does your child have the life skills he needs to be successful when he leaves home for college? With such a strong focus on academics for high school students, sometimes we miss teaching our kids some basic skills that will help them thrive. I had a college roommate who told me she didn't know how to do dishes. As I found out, the issue went way beyond dishes. After we had been living together for about 6 months she came and asked me where the cleaning supplies were kept. She had her own bath...| Busy Mommy Media
Many years ago when I was a young mom, I heard a woman with successful, happy, productive grown children give some advice that has stayed with me throughout the years: our job as parents is not to raise children but to raise adults. With my oldest getting ready to head back to her university to begin her senior year, and my second about to begin her freshman year in college, we've been making some important college purchases. All that shopping got me thinking about the college essentials we h...| Busy Mommy Media