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Teaching Kids to Set Financial Goals

Teaching Kids to Set Financial Goals

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Long story short, kids who know how to delay gratification tend to grow up to be adults with higher paying jobs, have happier relationships, are physically healthy, and are persistent in their pursuits. Let me know if you want the details to this longitudinal research. Using money, we have an unbelievable way to help our kids learn to delay gratification. It’s all about setting personal financial goals. There are three types of goals kids can set: ~to purchase a specific…

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Getting Kids EXCITED About Saving Money

Getting Kids EXCITED About Saving Money

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When Ryan was seven years old, John and I discovered he had a spending problem. As serious as a seven year old can have. It was all about Pokemon cards. Each week he would drain his money on the cute cards in hopes of striking it rich with a rare Charzard. But not wanting that spending problem to grow into a bad spending habit, we decided to introduce Ryan to compound interest. We wanted to see if the idea of…

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Yippee! I've Got Money! A Letter to Teens

Yippee! I've Got Money! A Letter to Teens

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I was asked to contribute an article to a book being published on kids and financial literacy (will share more on that later). Apart from being thrilled to have been asked, I happen to love writing, so I jumped at the chance. My given topic was ‘kids and budgeting’ and is a little longer than I usually post. But I think you’ll find it easy to read. Here we go: ~ Nice. You’ve got money. And if you’re like most…

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Fees Make a Difference

Fees Make a Difference

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I was so excited this morning after reading an article in the business section of the Sacramento Bee.  It was describing how Wal-Mart is having a positive impact on the environmental practices of companies it does business with, particularly in China.  Apparently, if you want to partner with Wal-Mart, you’re going to have to be eco-friendly.  Nice. I was excited because Nathan owns a share of Wal-Mart and when a company does good things, it usually ends up being reflected in the…

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A Blog Worthy of John

A Blog Worthy of John

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As I jumped up from the dinner table last night to jot down something that Nathan had just said about all the extra packaging that things come in (he’d rather save the money than have it spent on stuff that gets thrown out), John announced that he was glad he was not blog worthy.  My poor kids have to put up with a lot in the name of teaching  kids financial literacy. Actually, John is very blog worthy.  I’ve just…

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