Topic: Baby News – Living With Less Can Lead Families to More
In 1956, Coach Jerry Sacharski couldn’t turn away the little guys who showed up wanting to be part of his summer baseball program, so he started the first PeeWee T-ball league to teach the six -to-eight-year-old set the fundamentals of baseball and a thing or two about good, clean fun. Sacharski passed away on February 27th, and this week the the Wall Street Journal pondered whether parents, concerned with our shaky economic climate, might be foregoing expensive family vacations this summer to rediscover less costly family-bonding activities like T-ball and a game of catch in the backyard. Prior to the experiment, Candice’s teenage sons couldn’t remember the last time they ate a sit-down, home-cooked family dinner; now they eagerly look forward to it. She took the camera crew back to the modest home she once shared with her late husband and recalled a day when the family spent an afternoon playing together in piles of leaves. For many families, life has become way too materialistic and yet too unstable (with the average family holding 4 digits in credit card debt – unreal! read more
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