| With our country facing one of most challenging economic crisis in most of our life times, it's easy to go into protection mode and want to shelter our kids from our adult stresses. With the holidays on our heels, though, our stresses will very soon become their stresses as holidays become quickly modified in homes coast to coast. Among the people in my circle of friends, families and neighbors, people are uniformly altering their plans. It seems to be the rare few who are shopping, traveling and gift giving as they had even a year ago.As with most tough issues in life, honesty is always your ... » Original link |