There was a huge graphic of a cell phone on the front page of the Sacramento Bee this morning. It was all about the love affair tweens and teens have with their cell phones confirmed in a study by Pew Internet and American Life Project. If you have a tween or teen, this is not front-page news to you. But I thought it the perfect opportunity to re-print here a section from Raised for Richness, my parent kids and money…
I’ve been doing a little work with a group of foster kids ages 17-19. One of my goals has been to get them to see that their daily actions can influence their future. So at one of our last group meetings we talked about goal setting. I had them write down their goals for one-, five-, ten-, and twently-years. That begs the question…what are you doing right now to reach those goals? But this most recent meeting was about their…
I love watching commercials. Especially with Ryan. He wants to go into marketing as a career so it’s always fun to critique commercials with him. But last night, Ryan wasn’t with me while I had tuned in the Olympics so John got to hear me get annoyed at the t.v. instead. It was a Tide commercial and a young girl, about 12 years old, came on and started complaining about not being able to get the $100 pair of jeans she wanted because…
We were driving home from Nathan and Ryan’s basketball game yesterday when I asked Nathan what he planned on giving his girlfriend, Shea, for Valentine’s Day. “I bought her a rose,” he said. “My math teacher did an equation in class the other day where he proved girls were evil,” said Ryan. Ryan often throws out what I think are non sequiturs, but which actually turn out to fit in with the conversation. It just takes a few additional questions…
I was talking to a friend of mine recently about setting up an allowance program for her six-year-old daughter. Six is the perfect age to get an allowance going. Kids this age understand a lot about money and it’s time to start giving them some responsibility managing some so that they can begin to get into healthy habits. “She’s not interested in money at all,” my friend told me. “She doesn’t like to go shopping and never asks for anything.” I…