Archive for the 'Education' Category

DawsonTimes.com:
For the last thirteen years, Forsyth County resident, Julie Wilson has been fortunate to have been a stay-at-home mom, thanks to her husband, Denny’s, entrepreneurial knack for building successful businesses. Although Julie hasn’t been part of the workforce, per se, in many years, she has worked diligently at raising the couples’ two children, taking particular […]

APP.com:
It was five years ago that Rosemarie Maalouf began working on a concept for a children’s game.
But as the mother of two to go along with a career as a real estate agent, she had little time to focus on developing her idea into more than just a concept.
That is until last year, when she […]

Herald-Index:
The vacant brick building standing next to the Casey’s General Store on the north edge of Runnells is no longer empty.
A new, locally owned business called Wee Adventures is moving in and the business owner, Beth Erickson, will be offering before and after school daycare, plus preschool, for area youth. Erickson, who has a bachelor’s […]

Children love things that spotlight themselves, that’s a big part of the charm when it comes to personalized items. Reading About Me takes that to a whole new level with a variety of personalized books and CD’s that feature their favorite characters.
If your little girl has a thing for ballerina princesses or your little […]

ReviewJournal.com:
Christine Plaisted said she is lucky because she works from home. A telecommuter, she writes permits for oversized-load bearing trucks. Like their mom, her 14- and 12-year-old sons are working from home, taking their classes over the Internet.
When Plaisted worked outside the home in the past, she relied on her mother and sister for help, […]

MiamiHerald.com:
Kids running around a kitchen near a hot stove and sharp knives, up to their elbows in food, can be a nightmare for even the most patient parent. To teach children cooking skills while avoiding a messy kitchen, Mimi Chacin started The Budding Cook.
Chacin, who got her company underway in January, teaches kids the fun, […]

Suburban Newspapers:
Eleven homeschooled students, ranging in age from 7 to 17, gathered in the Bellevue University Student Center for an Entrepreneurship Expo last Thursday.
Janita Pavelka, a homeschool teacher and licensed entrepreneurship instructor, said a lot of time and care went into the students’ presentations.
“One of my students said to me, ‘This is hard work. This […]

This mom owned website has three different directions it goes in. Be Still & Knit offers knitting and crochet classes, hand-knit baby and children’s items as well as a charity program called Blankets for Deployed Daddies which gives hand-knit blankets to the babies of deployed soldiers.
With the many years experience to back her up in […]

Many parents find themselves a little tongue tied when their children start to ask those questions that we all dread. Those questions about where babies come from and the even more specific ones to follow after that. One mom set out to help answer those questions.
Amy Lang has a long past history in sexual health […]

North County Times:
When one North County woman decided to take control of her disabled son’s education by making DVDs showing what he was supposed to learn, she never imagined that the videos featuring him and other children as teaching tools would turn into a business.
Lucile Lynch’s son Conner who has cerebral palsy, ADHD, apraxia of […]