Success By Six

Providing Good Information to Help All Children Succeed for Life

Employ Your Children

Hire your kids instead of paying them an allowance!

It is quite common to see children actively involved in the family business. Even young children can perform valuable services. Many business owners, however, miss out on the major tax savings generated by actually hiring their children and paying them a fair wage for their services.

The expense is tax-deductible to you, and the income is tax-free to them. [Reg Sec 1.162-7(a) ] The tax-free limit for dependent children was $5,350 per child per year for 2007, and it tends to be increased somewhat each year. The amount is equal to the Standard Deduction.

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Monolingual Parents Raising Bilingual Or Multilingual Children – Is That Possible?

Of course and absolutely! To successfully raise a bilingual child you might need to put more effort in than mixed-language couples, but this really depends on the language of your environment:

A. Does your environment provide the same language you and your partner speak ? This will mean you will have to invest a lot of effort to expose your child to another language.

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Tackling Problem Children

Problems classified:

Psychologically, problems can be classified into two types. One type is the problems ‘to the children’ both physically and mentally. The other type is the problems ‘by the children’ in various matters affecting the whole atmosphere of the family.

Type I problems are related to speech, handicapped, left handedness, bad dreams, nightmares, nails biting, thumb sucking,etc.

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