Education / Parenting Blog
on November 17, 2020 at 9:06 am ×
Thank you DiversyFund for sponsoring this post. It’s never too early to learn about investing for your future! Since they were wee bundles, too young to make any money at all and too young to understand the value of having it and the anxiety of being without, I have been […]
Parenting Blog
on September 17, 2018 at 6:20 am ×
This post is sponsored by Lexington Law Firm Ten years ago, I willing waved goodbye to my cushy white collar job, and its beefy annual summertime bonus, to be a full time dad. My daughters were 4 and 1 then, newbies still as this whole ‘life’ thing. Upon announcing my […]
Parenting Blog
on January 22, 2018 at 7:30 am ×
Not every dad in the world will find the need to use the per piece cost of a 100-pack of iridescent beads to teach his kids about personal finance but all dads and moms do have a to help illustrate essential home economic topics of saving, spending, giving, and the […]
Parenting Blog
on November 28, 2012 at 10:04 am ×
For as long as we’ve been having two-way conversations with our children, my wife and I have been very forthright with them both about most things in life, money included. Whether it is donating it, saving it, spending it extravagantly, or spending it to put food on the table and […]
Parenting Blog
on October 27, 2012 at 7:13 am ×
My town, which is less a town and more a series of strip malls strung together with a garland of traffic lights, received an outpost of the Kiwi Yogurt to call its very own. My general vicinity now has three of these self-serve, pay per ounce, family owned frozen yogurt […]
Parenting Blog
on October 16, 2012 at 2:40 pm ×
Here’s the one where I make myself the Soup Nazi of kid’s allowances, so that’d be the Allowance Nazi, I guess. My girls haven’t received their weekly allowance ($3 / Bear, $2 / Mouse) for months. Sitting here trying to conceive of this post, I cannot actually remember the last […]
Clever Girls / Parenting Blog
on November 2, 2011 at 8:40 am ×
This post was underwritten by BMO Harris Bank, which offers a matching $25 on a new savings account opened for your child through their Helpful Steps for Parents program. Learn more at bmoharris.com/parents. Kids & Money, Saving & Spending Many of the best lessons in life are learned as a […]