What’s the secret to living a happy and fulfilling life? The answer to this question is something Dr. Robert Waldinger and Dr. Marc Schulz have strived to answer through years of research. The two men are directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest longitudinal biopsychosocial study of human development that started tracking […]
What’s the secret to living a happy and fulfilling life? The answer to this question is something Dr. Robert Waldinger and Dr. Marc Schulz have strived to answer through years of research. The two men are directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest longitudinal biopsychosocial study of human development that started tracking […]
By day, he’s a consultant to Fortune 500 companies dotting the globe and lectures at a major business school. By night, though, Rick Kolsky does a 180-degree pivot and coaches 11- and 12-year-old girls’ basketball at a local gym. Why? “I view coaching as something that is trying to teach kids great life lessons, […]
You can describe an exotic or well-known travel destination to your children, but it’s not the same as stepping off the plane to let them smell, taste and feel another culture. Ladia Cheng of Mundelein did just that. She wanted her teenage children to soak in her native Guam, so she packed them up […]
Gather up the grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles and second cousins twice removed: Multi-generational trips are the hottest trend in the travel business. “The fastest growing segment of our business is multi-generational travel,” says Geoffrey Kent, chairman and CEO of Abercrombie & Kent, the Oak Brook-based luxury travel company. “Our clients don’t just want to […]
OK, we know it’s practically ingrained into just about every parent’s DNA: Children. Must. Learn. All. The. Time. For some, the thought of not using those few precious weeks during the summer to get a leg up in the academic arena is practically blasphemy. That said, it’s important to remember that sometimes kids can […]
