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Adopt a Class or School – Change a Life Campaign

Adopt a Class or School – Change a Life Campaign

We’re working with Sammy Rabbit on his “Adopt a Class or School – Change a Life” campaign. If you’d like to participate, email me. Details are below. “Adopt a Class Change a Life” Campaign Special Teach Children SMART Money Habits! Book + Music + Activity Strategic Multi media, Multi intelligence approach teaches smart money habits; builds reading and listening skills! Special (limited time only) 3 Items for price of 1 Get a FREE Story Book: It’s a Habit, Sammy Rabbit!…

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Kids and New Year’s Resolutions

Kids and New Year’s Resolutions

Ah, New Year’s Resolutions. Most of us make them. But sticking to them… Here’s an idea. Get the kids involved. They love to know what’s going on in your life. They’re snoopy that way. Actually, they’re just curious about how adults work. So let’s use this opportunity to teach them about New Year’s Resolutions…which is simply a fancy beginning-of-the-year way to say ‘goals’. It’s usually not too difficult for adults to come up with goals. Most of them have been…

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Teaching Kids the Price of Luxury – A Teachable Money Moment

Teaching Kids the Price of Luxury – A Teachable Money Moment

It’s our job as parents to provide food, shelter, and clothing to our kids.  But no where in the manual does it say that our little cherubs need to be clothed in the finest of linens. So the next time you’re out shopping with Junior, and he is just drooling over those $100 Lacoste shoes that “everyone is wearing”, remind him that you will always make sure his toes are dry and comfy, but your shoe budget taps out at ($60)….

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Teaching Kids Money: Embracing Mistakes

Teaching Kids Money: Embracing Mistakes

Nobody likes to make mistakes. They’re annoying, frustrating, and sometimes even embarrassing.  And they often make us feel like we’ve done something wrong.  Unless we change the way we think about them.  And when we do, we can discover that mistakes are one of the most powerful teaching tools we have. Consider your child being in charge of making a class poster for the school play.  He brings home the poster board and stencils and begins to work.  “Do you…

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Oil. It’s Important.

Oil. It’s Important.

My niece stopped by for a quick visit on her way through to Burning Man.  She was driving my sister’s 2003 Honda Accord. “Yup, it’s my car now,” my niece smiled. I knew she had been having problems with her 1993 Toyota Tercel .  But I didn’t know what the problems were. “So what happened to your car?” I asked. “I ran out of oil.” Really?  That’s what the problem was?  Not an old transmission or faulty spark plugs?  But…

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