Not Made Of Money

While you are probably looking forward to spending time with your friends and family over the Thanksgiving holiday, I suspect your kids have an entirely different take on Thanksgiving. They may be glad to spend time with their family and friends, their focus is probably on the upcoming break from school. Thanksgiving break [...]

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One of the many parts of responsible parenting is teaching your little ones how to handle their own finances. Now is the time to begin planting the seeds of good financial practices in their minds. Although they don’t have a lot of money now, the fundamentals they learn will serve them well when [...]

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I’ve written in the past how we are teaching the kids about finances. They each have their own tithing, spending, and saving jars. But just because they know how to divide their money, doesn’t really mean they understand much about managing money. We try to teach lessons just during everyday occurences and [...]

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One of the things we’ve noticed in our family is that the more advertising we see, the more stuff we are likely to want. This is especially true with our children. We try to minimize the amount of advertising they are exposed to which helps to alleviate some of the “I wants”. [...]

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I checked this book out a few weeks ago from my local library. Even though it was published in 1996, the money saving ideas it presents are valid for today. The book contains a myriad of ideas about exactly how to save money on kid related items as well as stories from real [...]

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Our children have been wanting to learn tennis for a while now. We haven’t paid for lessons yet because in our area they are very expensive even at a group rate. Since the kids did not even have tennis racquets, we told them that they would need to save their money until they [...]

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