How to Get Rich Quickly!
Whenever you receive income of any kind, immediately put 25% of it into a savings account. Whenever that savings account reaches $5,000 in total balance, …
How to Be Wealthy Now
Here’s a question to ask yourself at random times: Am I getting? Or am I being? When it comes to new paradigms and big dreams, think about this: Getting …
How to Get Rich Quickly
As you’re reading a personal finance blog I can assume that you’re interested in money. Today only, just for you my loyal readers, I am going to answer the …
10 Ways to Get Rich
With an estimated fortune of $62 billion, Warren Buffett is the richest man in the entire world. In 1962, when he began buying stock in Berkshire Hathaway, a …
How The World's Billionaires Get Rich
Want to be a billionaire? You may want to consider which of the many paths to wealth–ballet flats? real estate in China? the next Facebook?–could be most …
How to Actually Get Rich
All the ‘get rich’ advice in the world revolves around saving your money. Here’s a tough pill to swallow, but you won’t get rich by saving your money. …
The 21 Rules of the Rich
I recently ran across this article entitled 21 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than Average People based on a book called How Rich People Think. I was …
Affluence and Teen Substance Abuse
Dominant factors in affluent families have proven to have a direct correlation between economic wealth and substance abuse amongst teens. Family dynamics among …
Five Steps for Achieving Affluence
Affluence includes money but it is also broader than just money. Affluence is a flow of good things into your life. Here are five steps to help you achieve …
Adolescent and Family Issues
Every family is going to have problems with their teenagers at one time or another. Most times your kids are just being kids. But sometimes, when the issues …
Talking to Your Adolescent or Teen About Problems
Although communicating with your adolescent or teen can be challenging, it is important to continually make the effort. This is especially important when your …
Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
The Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine clinic operates under the auspices of the University of Maryland Children's Hospital. The Division of Adolescent and …
Child & Adolescent Disorders
Children are not just small versions of adults. Even adolescents are very different from adults. If we try to understand their problems from an adult …
Problems Of Adolescents A Vicious Cycle
ADOLESCENCE is a challenging crossroad between childhood and the adult world. It is that opportune time in an individual’s life when he or she learns to make …
Adolescent Issues
Adolescence can be a difficult time with pressures to do well in school, fit in with peers, get along with family members and make some big decisions about the …
How Adolescent Thinking Develops
Adolescents typically think in concrete ways. This means that they have difficulty with abstract and symbolic concepts. Their thinking tends to be focused on …
Abstract Ideas & Thinking in Adolescent Development Stages
As a young person’s body develops during the adolescent years, so does his brain. The forebrain, which is the most advanced part of the brain, is responsible …
The adolescent mind
As their brains approach maturity, teens are poised for tremendous cognitive development. Experts speculate that as the myelinization of neural connections …
Adolescent Growth and Development
Adolescence is a time of many transitions for both teens and their families. To ensure that teens and adults navigate these transitions successfully, it is …
General Characteristics of the Adolescent
We now turn to an examination of some general characteristics of the period of adolescence, again referring to needs in the three areas of social, …
Characteristics of Adolescent Thinking
There are four important characteristics that distinguish adolescent thinking from more mature thinking: adolescent egocentrism (intense preoccupation with …
Your teenager’s developing brain
Children’s brains have a massive growth spurt when they’re very young. By the time they’re six, their brains are already about 90-95% of adult size. But …
Adolescent Brains Biologically Wired to Engage in Risky Behavior
Previous studies have found that teenagers tend to be more sensitive to rewards than either children or adults. Now, Russell Poldrack and fellow researchers …
Adolescent Brain Coping Changes
It is important that pre-teens, their parents and teachers understand three factors that are responsible for many brain function and behaviour difficulties …
Learning and the Adolescent Mind
The adolescent brain is extra sensitive to reward signals when pay-off for risk is higher than expected. The chemistry of the adolescent brain might explain …