A Banking Project for You and Your Kids
Each year, I invite my Grandchildren to a one week overnight camp I call Grandma Rie’s Money Camp. During that week, we focus on personal finance concepts, activities, projects and fun. This year’s camp...
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2014 Grandma Rie’s Money Camp – Preparing for Money Camp
Teaching the next generation to successfully handle money and personal finances is normally a family responsibility. Although parents bear much of the burden to teach, train and model good personal finance, extended family members...
Teach Your Kids the Power of the Time Value of Money
Grandma Rie’s Money Camp was last week – it was another week of fun, learning and activities about personal finance . One of the activities we did this year explored the concept of the...
A “Lets Pretend” Game to Help Teach Your Grade Schooler to Manage Money
I’m spending the month preparing for my 2014 Grandma Rie’s Money Camp session which will be held at the end of July this year. This year’s camp changed location to take advantage of a...
Review of: The Young Investor – Projects and Activities for Making your Money Grow
by Katherine R. Bateman, copyright 2001. Published by Chicago Review Press, Inc Summary Ms Bateman wrote this book to help her tween grandchildren learn about the market so they could wisely select investments with...
Samantha Squirrel Learns Persistence
Readers, here is another Financial Fable to read to your kids. Samantha was a gray tree squirrel, born in March high in the tree top nest her Mama and Papa had built. She lived...
Review of: Kiplinger’s Money Smart Kids – What they need to know about money and how to tell them
by Janet Bodnar copyright 2005 published by Dearborn Trade Publishing Summary. Bodnar attempts to make the reader see a kid’s point of view about money – demonstrating what kids think, say, know and don’t...
Review of: The First National Bank of Dad – The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money
by David Owen, copyright 2003 published by Simon & Schuster Summary. Owen gives a down to earth, humorous set of examples to help parents teach kids about money by letting them have control. When...
Essential Apps for Teaching Your Kids About Money
You’d be surprised the number of students that get to college with little to no budgeting skills. Actually, you probably wouldn’t, seeing as most students find themselves in enormous amounts of debt and unsure...
Saving for College Without Hurting Aid Chances
Our family has a generational tradition of helping out the next generation with college expenses. My Mom was the first to attend college. She attended a city college and was helped out by her...
