This past weekend, my preschooler’s neighborhood buddies didn’t want to play frisbee with him. Despite his insistence, they left him to go play with his soccer ball—and, unsurprisingly, he was fuming.

“That’s why you’re so high on the scale!” Courtney said, jokingly. The kitchen table went silent. My best friend, Kara, gasped. I was shocked and everyone looked around the kitchen table, not sure ...

College students take on loans as an investment: Presumably, they’ll graduate and reap the benefits — income that helps them repay that debt and then some. But parents borrow for their children ...