One of the most brilliant ideas that parents come up with when it comes to savings for their kids include opening a savings account. This is one move that parents feel would guarantee their kids a lifetime of thrift and…
Gifts have long been a way to show some affection to another person, and most parents and caregivers can’t help but want to shower their kids with special things. All too often, though, all those gifts do is end up…
With study after study showing that the majority of kids are woefully behind in terms of understanding and applying financial concepts, it’s no surprise that parents are looking for ways to teach their kids about money. That said, not everyone…
Thirteen may not be the luckiest of numbers but 2013 is certainly a pretty good year to get a good financial footing, in case you’re not much fussy about your finances. The American couples have been saving for 2 purposes,…
The proverbial Joneses. The family that has everything that everyone wants, that sets the trends everyone wants to follow, that people struggle to mimic. To some degree, we all try to keep up with them, as the saying goes, but…
When kids are really young, their idea about how to get money is pretty simple, not to mention misguided: Run out of cash? No worries! Just go to the bank! Don’t have enough money to pay for something you want?…
Money makes the world go ‘round, or so the saying goes. In modern society, though, you have to tweak that saying a bit. It’s more like plastic makes the Earth keep rotating. With technology becoming more and more integrated into…
Whether it’s a traditional fat little porcelain piggy or a decked out electronic coin sorting gadget-gizmo-thing, a piggy bank of some kind is pretty standard fare when it comes to getting kids learning about money, saving and budgeting. In some…
If there’s one basic skill your child needs to learn about money, it’s how to create a budget. It’s perhaps even more important than saving, because the budget shows your child how to distribute the savings he puts together and…
Virtually all financial experts agree that learning how to make a basic budget is one of the keys to monetary stability. Making the budget alone is not enough, however. Your child also needs to be able to track his money…