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Help Your Mother Prepare for Retirement

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Help Your Mother Prepare for Retirement Mother’s Day is almost here, so start shopping for the flowers or candy for Mom. But this year, why not also go beyond the traditional? Specifically, if your mother is still working but getting close to retirement, consider providing her with a gift that can help make her days as a retiree more pleasant. Here are a few suggestions: Contribute to her IRA. As long as your mother is employed, she can contribute to an IRA, and she may already have one. If so, help her fund it for 2016. You can’t contribute directly … Continue reading Help Your Mother Prepare for Retirement

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Raising teenagers in North America: why the constant fight with Haitian-parents?

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Leaving Haiti to settle in North America brings many different challenges for parents. While parents struggle to make ends meet, they have to constantly worry about the impact of the American culture on the values they learned in Haiti. The constantly changing limits of sex, drugs, and gender are great source of frustrations for parents who lived in a country where conversations about sex were limited; drugs usage were low or non-existent, and gender lines were rigid. The cultural difference is an important factor that affects teenagers and Haitian parents. Haiti is a conservative country. Conversations about sex are so … Continue reading Raising teenagers in North America: why the constant fight with Haitian-parents?