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INTEGRATION OF RETIREMENT AND ESTATE PLANNING
Basic concepts for accumulating retirement funds and incorporating an estate planning process that will preserve retirement income to retirees.
BASIC FINANCIAL PLANNING AND FAMILY COMMUNICATION
Review of the elements for developing a found financial plan and carrying on a fruitful discussion among family members about financial planning topics.
THE ROUND LEGEND
HARRY POTTER & STRONGER PARENT/CHILD RELATIONS
Explains how reading the Harry Potter books with children gives parents a window into children's lives.
ACHIEVING WORK-LIFE BALANCE.
Identifies strategies that organizations and individuals can use to achieve work-life balance.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH: ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN YOUNG CHILDREN.
Summaries of ways young children (ages 2-5) are assessed for daily physical activity and the implications of physical activity on the child's health.
MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG ADOLESCENTS.
Information about middle level education programs and practices, including interdisciplinary teaming, scheduling, teacher advisory programs, curriculum design (cross-curricular integration), intramural/interscholastic athletic programs, and parent connections with school, including the transition to middle level schools.
I LOVE MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, BUT...
A motivational talk on the importance of self-discipline in changing a life-long active, though sedentary, life-style into one of greater fitness and health, while losing the equivalent weight of a mother-in-law. Also, the positive carry-over this brings to all facets of life and the family.
RELATIONSHIPS
CAN(N)NONS OF MASCULINITY: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF MASCULITITIES IN THE CLASSIC TEXTS OF WESTERN POLITICAL THEORY
Explorers works of Plato, hobbes, Marx, etc. and how their characters seem to actually be prescriptive models for specific modes of masculinities. Looks into why so many of our founding myths contain stories of fathers willing to sacrifice their sons (ie: Lauis & Oedipus, Abraham & Isaac, the Christian God the Father & Jesus). Presentation examines the contemporary legacies and implications of these and other foundational theories and stories.
SELF INJURY AND ADOLESCENTS
Identifies the history, prevalence, and causes of self-injurious behavior in adolescents.