Kids and Money
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009I was just taking a money survey over at Charles Schwab and came across this question:
Of the following, which are the most important lessons in saving and investing for parents to teach their children?
Select up to two options:
A. Live within your means
B. Begin saving at an early age
C. Avoid [...]
Survey Says: Now is the Time to Talk to Teens About the Economy
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009This is a guest post by John M. Box, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Education, JA Worldwide. I meant to post this last week while I was on vacation but never got to it. Anyway, I think Junior Achievement is an important program so I’m happy to help them spread the word.
In our current economic [...]
Lessons Learned: Saving on Your Child’s School Lunch
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009This is a guest post by John M. Box, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Education, JA Worldwide. I meant to post this last week while I was on vacation but never got to it. Anyway, I think Junior Achievement is an important program so I’m happy to help them spread the word. [...]
JLP’s Kids and Household Chores Experiment
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009My wife just came off a plant turnaround. For those of you not familiar with a turnaround, it’s when a plant shuts everything down to do maintenance. Naturally, when the plant is down, they aren’t making product, which means they aren’t making money. In other words, they want it back up and [...]
Rethinking Our Kids’ Allowances
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008I’ve written in the past about how my wife and I handle our kids’ allowances. Basically, we pay our boys $10 per week. That allowance means that my wife and I are not hassled for stuff every time we go to a store. If they want to buy something extra, they have [...]
Abercrombie…
Monday, November 24th, 2008At this very moment I’m standing in an Abercrombie store waiting for my oldest son to pick out some jeans. You know, I could handle their prices if I didn’t feel like I was buying garage sale crap!
More thoughts later…
FYI - my son is putting some of his own money towards the purchase.
UPDATE: [...]
JLP’s Parenting Conundrum: Raising Responsible Kids
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008This year my youngest son is entering his first year of middle school, which is a lot different from elementary school. It’s been an adjustment but he’s been doing great except for one small area.
His school requires all the kids to wear name badges. The school has threatened that if a [...]
Using Mashed Potatoes to Teach Kids About Money
Monday, September 8th, 2008This is part of the September Edition of the MoneyBlogNetwork’s Group Writing Project. This month’s edition’s focus is on kids and money. My post is below and is followed by links to other posts from the MoneyBlogNetwork blogs and our friends. Enjoy!
A commenter on one of my previous kids and money posts, [...]
Advice For Your Kids - How Would You Answer This Question?
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008I received an email earlier today about a new survey that Charles Schwab conducted called Rethinking Retirement (more on this in a follow-up post). On the Rethinking Retirement homepage, there’s a link to take the survey, which I did.
One of the questions towards the end of the survey pertains to parents and [...]
10 Relatively Cheap Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained During the Summer
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Looking for some ideas for cheap, educational, and possibly fun ways to keep your kids busy this summer? Here are some ideas I thought of off the top of my head. Of course there are more expensive ideas like sports camps and things like that. I tried to keep this list to [...]
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