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The post How to Make Money with No Skills appeared first on Millennial Money. Traditionally, unskilled labor is work that requires little or no formal education or training to complete. While this was limiting in the past for job seekers, the advent of the internet and the gig economy changed the game. Now, it’s not only possible to find opportunities to earn extra income with unskilled labor—it’s easy. To be clear, when we talk about skills, we’re talking about diplomas, certifications, and experience. If you don’t have any of those things yet, it doesn’t mean you’re any less capable than...

fizkes/ShutterstockRecent research has linked playing video games in childhood with an increase in intelligence. While parents and carers may be pleasantly surprised by these findings, they are less unexpected for many researchers of children’s digital play. Studies have previously shown that playing digital games is associated with a wide range of benefits for children, even in those who are very young. Certain types of digital game play can enhance learning and help develop digital skills. Digital games can also improve “executive function”, such as working memory and impulse control, in both preschoolers and adolescents. Read more: Video games: our study...

I didn't actually mean for this to turn into a series, but the kids and I messed around with SO many logic games and puzzles and fidgets recently as we absolutely burned through The Great Gatsby audiobook (if you can listen to a book read by Sean Astin, LISTEN TO A BOOK READ BY SEAN ASTIN!) that it really got me thinking about them and the place that they've held in our homeschool high school. That place has been central. Absolutely essential. I know I've said this before, but so much of homeschooling high school is having conversations together, or absorbing...

Two of my children have individual education programs, also known as an IEP, which means I’ve sat in plenty of team meetings. Anyone who has been to one knows it feels a lot being on a game show—invigorating, nerve-racking, and overwhelming. You can’t help but have big feelings, because your child’s educational experience is at stake. A child who has a solid IEP can go from failing at school—academically, socially, mentally, and even physically—to thriving. Let’s take a step back for a minute and examine why you’re at this point with your child and what you can anticipate. Students who...

I’ve been a working mom—in video games and technology—during most of the pandemic. I’ve always been involved with technology for parents. Mostly, that meant I could work from home, play video games with my kids, monitor a news team from my living room and have the best of both worlds, stay-at-home mom and working mom. Now that the world is opening back up, people are catching the travel bug again and companies want to get together after almost three years apart. Enter, the working parent’s panic.  This is all new to me, and something I’m learning to balance between my...