Investments
You buy Apple stock at $100 and it goes up to $123. You made this much money.
What is $0?
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
This mustached man famously said “I run to see who has the most guts.”
Who is Steve Prefontaine or Pre?
The term describing a child’s age and place in their family that necessarily influences how a child is treated, and Mom’s rational for every relatable interaction between siblings (and interestingly, spouses)
What is birth order?
What Abby said in the most angry moment of her life.
What is "I don't love Mom, I don't love Dad, I don't love the Family, and I don't love Jesus!"
Gold - silver - oil - stocks ... this one had the highest rate of return over the last 10 years.
What is stock?
Stock = 248%
Gold = 119%
Silver = 88%
Oil = 3%
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / and sorry I could not travel both
Who is Robert Frost?
This journal style book details the story of Adam Goucher and the 1998 Colorado Buffaloes Cross Country team.
What is Running with the Buffaloes?
What mom would say is the “critical period" in brain development, where the brain is highly plastic and receptive to environmental stimuli, allowing for optimal learning and connection building.
What are age 0-3?
This is how much Dad weights right now.
What is 168 pounds?
For everyone in this room, this is your Social Security FRA? (Full Retirement Age; unreduced benefit).
What is age 67?
Because I could not stop for Death - / he kindly stopped for me
A last minute substitute in the 10,000 meters, this American won gold in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Who is Billy Mills?
Term that defines promoting each child's optimal development and learning through a strengths-based, play-based approach to joyful, engaged learning, and the way mom judges anything child-centric.
What is the term “developmentally (or “age”) appropriate”
This person has the following: bad knees, broken neck, poor eyesight, neuropathy in hands, and a cheerful disposion.
This is the acceptable annual withdrawal % to take from your investments per year to have your money last your lifetime.
What is 4%
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Who is William Shakespeare?
She won the first ever Women’s Marathon at an Olympic Games in 1984.
Who is Joan Benoit?
The city-run early childhood program that has become recognized and acclaimed as one of the best systems of education in the world, and on mom’s bucket list to visit.
What is Reggio Emelia?
This famous children’s rhyme was taught to the Beshuk children when they were waiting around in the car.
What is Silence in the courthouse?
This is how many years it will take for your money to double if you make 9% per year.
What is 8?
The Rule of 72: divide the number 72 by your assumed rate of return.
Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me!
Who is Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
The total number of team National Championships won by University of Arkansas coach John McDonnell.
What is 40?
Boston pediatrician, and mom’s favorite early childhood specialist, known for developing the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, and famously (in mom’s eyes) authoring Touchpoints of Development.
Who is T. Berry Brazelton?
The name of the song mom tap danced to to win The Little Miss California title in 1983.