Monthly Archives: September 2009

Debt Sucks

I help prepare kids for their eventual financial futures.  Which means, I get them when they’re young and teach them how to stay out of debt and build wealth.  So being confronted with young adults who are already thousands of … Continue reading

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5-Year Olds DO Get It

I had the pleasure of a phone conversation with my 5-year old niece, Olivia, the other night.  We were chatting about her first weeks in Kindergarten.  Apparently, Ian had brought in a pretty nifty coin collection because she talked about it … Continue reading

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A $300 Lesson

I’d heard about stuff like this before but this was my first real exposure to it.  $300 in overdraft fees. In response to my question, “What are some of your experiences with money?” Josh, a 19-year old in my young … Continue reading

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Bailouts

One of the hardest things for me to do as a parent is to deliberately allow my kids to fail.  It’s so hard that sometimes I need to walk out of the room so I don’t end up intervening and bailing … Continue reading

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1 in 1,592,937

I use my husband and kids as guinea pigs.  That’s what I was doing one evening during dinner when I handed everyone a post-it note.  I was practicing a lesson I was planning on teaching the next day to a … Continue reading

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