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Your Superpower: Not Sucking At Money

Your Superpower: Not Sucking At Money

[Editor’s Note: We are currently accepting guest post submissions! We want to hear about your financial successes, failures, insight, expert advice, and more. Submit before September 10, 2020, for Q4 2020 consideration. See our Guest Post Policy for more information.] I have a superpower. I understand your skepticism, but it’s true. What I have is so rare that it functions in our society as the equivalent of a superpower by giving me power to do things that most mere mortals simply cannot do. What is this superpower you might ask? Is it x-ray vision? No. Can I fly? Only in...

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My Biological Father Ghosted Me. Here’s What Happened And How I Coped.

My Biological Father Ghosted Me. Here’s What Happened And How I Coped.

My mother and father split not long after I was born. I never really got a chance to get to know my father, but my family always spoke highly of him. “We just weren’t meant to be together,” they’d say. This was something I could understand, so I never felt resentment or anger for his lack of contact and appearance in my life.  Still, there was always this looming sadness. I wondered, “Does he think about me? Does he remember my birthday or how old I am? Does he miss me?” I thought of him during my first rock climbing...

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What to Know Before Using Your Pickup to Tow

What to Know Before Using Your Pickup to Tow

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Truck advertisements boast about how much a pickup can tow, with demonstrations of stunning feats such as hauling a space shuttle down a city street. But the reality is, the typical pickup at the dealership has much more humble abilities. For drivers looking to tow, there are two main things to know: how much weight they’ll tow and which truck can adequately do that job. It may sound simple, but there’s a lot to learn about engines, transmissions, and equipment packages to ensure that they have the right truck...

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The Easy Way

The Easy Way

There are two ways to get good at something: the harder way and the easier way. I’ve done both. I nearly mastered the harder way while I was in school. There I had to be good at things, like math and science, which I would have happily avoided if I believed I had a choice. For instance, sitting in my third-grade math class I would have rather played football or watched cartoons or drawn a picture than solved fifteen long division problems. Unfortunately, my choices were: solve the problems or suffer a consequence (specifically, adult disapproval) I had no intention...

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How to Show Kids the Joy of Reading

How to Show Kids the Joy of Reading

Editor’s Note: In the next five years, most of America’s most experienced teachers will retire. The Baby Boomers are leaving behind a nation of more novice educators. In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. Less than three decades later, that number had fallen to just three years leading a classroom. The Atlantic’s “On Teaching” project is crisscrossing the country to talk to veteran educators. This story is the 20th in our series.“Look at this cloud,” Deloris Fowler coaxed her third graders during a science lesson about different types of clouds last year. “What shape do you...

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