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In 1996, then first lady Hillary Clinton popularized the saying, \\u201cIt Takes A Village\\u201d when she published a book with that title.

The original saying, \\u201cIt takes a village to raise a child,\\u201d is variously attributed to African and Indigenous American societies. Wherever it came from, its meaning is widely accepted. And that is, the knowledge and skills a child needs to become a well-rounded, successful, functioning adult are learned not just from a child\\u2019s parents, but from people in their community.

Peter Ricchiuti\'s guests on Out to Lunch today are two of those village people.

Larry Washington is working to retire the common complaint that kids graduate high school woefully unprepared for the real world.

You might have been one of those kids.\\xa0A lot of us discovered when we left school that we knew nothing about credit cards, checking accounts, or budgeting. We had no real understanding of what being a member of the workforce is all about. And no one in school even broached the subject of entrepreneurship or what it means to start your own business.

If Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans has a connection to your kids\\u2019 school, they\\u2019re going to graduate knowing all of that.\\xa0Junior Achievement of New Orleans reaches between 20 and 40 thousand students a year. And Larry Washington is its President.

After we graduate from school and move into various stages of adulthood, marriage, and parenting, we find out we have even more to learn.

Ty Salvant is an author, speaker, and founder of an organization called Time With Ty that focuses on providing education, support, and assistance in those areas of our lives where we\\u2019re expected to figure it out on our own.

Sometimes, that strategy just doesn\\u2019t work out so great, and you need help.\\xa0Time With Ty includes Time For Rest \\u2013 self-care support for women; Time For Us \\u2013 a marriage enrichment program; and Time To Play, which connects adults to local community organizations.

Ty is also the author of a series of children\\u2019s books called The Alphabet of You.

\\u201cEasier said than done.\\u201d\\xa0We\\u2019re all familiar with that saying. And most of us are also familiar with how frustratingly true it is, in all kinds of avenues of life.\\xa0It\\u2019s a lot easier to say, \\u201cKids need a more rounded education,\\u201d or \\u201cWe should be able to ask for help when we need it,\\u201d than it is to actually give kids a more rounded education, or ask for help when we need it.

We\\u2019re all indebted to people like Larry and Ty who dedicate themselves to stepping up and doing something about solving the problems most of just talk about.

Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at\\xa0NOLA Pizza\\xa0in the\\xa0NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com

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