Goal setting is super important when you’re teaching your child about finance—it keeps them focused, makes progress easier to measure and gives you the chance to offer praise and reward when they do well. You can set dozens of different…
It’s the Christmas season again, meaning that your kids are probably facing a common dilemma: They want to give gifts, yet they simply don’t have a lot of money to buy stuff for others. So what’s a financially-savvy mom or…
Allowances are one of the most hotly debated elements of financial education for kids. In one corner, parents advocate them, because having real money available can make it easier for children to save, spend, give to charity and learn basics…
Just about everybody has the proverbial “rainy day” when it comes to finances, and even if your children have an exceptionally trouble-free, they still need to save for the retirement years. The sooner you encourage your kids to save, the…
Halloween promises tons of ghoulish fun for people of all ages, but with the holiday suffering from increasing commercialism, it can be more of a “trick” than a “treat” to come up with inexpensive ways to get in on the…
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas: All four of these major holidays are huge profit opportunities for stores and manufacturers, and it’s easy to get caught up in the materialism that’s so ever-present. To combat this, the best route is to…