Hi Mom,” my 12-year-old daughter said, as she bounded through the door with a fistful of crisp bills. She was fresh off her first babysitting job, caring for a neighborhood kindergartener for the hour ...

But when school ends at 3, the latest dental appointment is at 4:30, and kids' sports games start at 5:30, it's easy to see how jobs get in life's way. Long before my kids started school and ...