Dr. Oz is now an infomercial. He used to be educational.

in about a month i'm cancelling my cable. i have downloaded a few educational tv shows for my kids and i to watch (bill nye, etc) on designated "screen days". i'm tired of them wanting to watch spongebob and icarly 24/7. i also took the wii away about 2 months ago and they finally stopped asking to play on it all the time.

I consider myself a conservative. I am a Christian, but use New Age practices to express it. I am pro-life, but don't believe life begins at conception. Government should be fiscally responsible--and smaller. Education is more important than defense, but as an Army brat I also fully support our troops. The way our veterans are taken care of is a sham. I am a coal miner's granddaughter who works in corporate America, so yes, unions can be useful. Concealed carry permit means yes, I am packing. Legalize drugs. Live and let live. It makes voting difficult.

I wonder if that study about obesity and IQ controlled for mother's IQ. The more education a person has, the less likely they are to be obese. And this is PROBABILITY, not a 100% correlation. And yes, I'm aware that education does not 100% correlate with intelligence too.

eduction does not set you free or open as many doors as people often belive. I have an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree from ivy league colleges and I now have massive debt from these undertakings and cannot find any work in my fields that will help me pay off my loans (English and education). No one will hire me outside of my fields either. I am not a new graduate either.

My children's greatgrandmother has given 10K to each grandchild at the time of birth with explicit instructions that it is to be invested and used for education. How I wish we could apply it to our mortgage and be out of debt sooner! Sigh. At least the kids are taken care of for university.

I'm not saving for my kids university education. Maybe a little bit in a resp, but besides that no one helped pay for my education. It's called student loans, and imo they're wonderful. My sisters and I all went to university. My sister has a PhD, my other sister and I have masters degrees, and my other sister has 2 bachelors degrees and a diploma. My parents were not rich, and we all used student loans, and did just fine.

To be quite honest, we are not saving for our kids universtiy education. Right now tuition rates at McGill and University of Ottawa are under $3000 per year for most programs. Instead we are accelerating our mortgage so that it will be paid off by the time we have both kids in university.

We've got $36k for our son's college education. He's 5. But it all came from an annuity from his grandmother. We're truly blessed to have that. Otherwise, based on our combined $65k per year (yes, we're both college educated), there's no way we could save for him. Every time we save some money for his college fund or our retirement, we get a medical/dental bill or we have a home repair. Just can't seem to get ahead nowadays, but we're trucking along, just like everybody else.

We've already saved $20 K towards DD's education, and she's only 7.