Hi all, I'm home alone (well with dd) as dh is off with ds to cub camp (I'm quite envious, they will be skiing and snowshoeing, so it will be really fun). ds was very down this week, as he was very very chuffed with himself at asking a girl he likes to the school Valentine dance, and then having said yes she dumped him three days later. It was interesting to watch - a first for us, as prior to this ds has considered girls (at school anyway) to be really totally irrelevant. Still the other girls were very consoling, so maybe he'll ask someone else (it was quite funny, he was talking about having his hair cut and looking smart - this from a boy who has never brushed his hair and has gone to school with clothes inside out and back to front on more than one occasion!).
If I had the choice about a green card I would go for it, just because we had to leave the States in a hurry when dh lost his job, and it was really fairly awful. I'm just about to send off my Permanent Residency application here (very similar) and we will feel so much better afterward, as then our destiny s in our own hands IYSWIM.
Re that freakanomics thing, maternal education has always been most closely tied to children's subsequent success, but there is a thread somewhere saying that it is parental style that matters most. I'll post a link.