Iâve witnessed dads brag to each other about their sonsâ athletic prowess, and mothers boast about their daughtersâ brilliant science project. But Iâve never, in my life, heard a parent go on and on about what a great saver his or her kid is. Yet itâs the young savers of the world who will likely
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How do we get our children to pay attention to what really matters when they are surrounded by so much stuff? That was my question in my last blog post. I was inspired a few months ago by someone who gave me the answer. After Hurricane Sandy hit my hometown of Queens last October, Nan
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As part of the Mint.com Money Boo Boos sweepstakes, Iâve been asked to write about the common mistakes parents make when teaching their kids about moneyâoften without realizing it. Hmmmmmm. How much time do you have? Seriously, though, I find this question particularly interesting, mostly because we parents tend to adopt well-meaning rules and theories
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Around our house, weâre big fans of the TV show Modern Family. So when I read recently that each of the four kids on the show would be getting $70,000 per episode, it was fun to speculate about what the child stars would spend their money on. All I could imagine was the dim-witted little
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A few days after Hurricane Sandy hit New York, my son and I walked the streets of Far Rockaway, Queens, carrying large bottles of bleach. When we met a man outside of his home, we asked if he would like one. He had a tear in his eye as he quietly thanked us, and walked
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I recently wrapped up my service as the only financial journalist asked by President Obama in 2010 to serve on the Presidentâs Advisory Council on Financial Capability. In our meeting with the President at the White House a few weeks ago, the Council delivered our final report. One of the priorities of our two-year stint was
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Wendy Mogel, author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and The Blessing of a B Minusâand a parenting genius, in my opinionâsays that kids need to have jobs in high school. I get that. When I was in high school in the â80s, I had three jobs: I worked the counter at a pharmacy,
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For years, each of the 50 states had its own ideas about what kids should be taught from kindergarten up through 12th grade. The result: a hodgepodge of standards and guidelines that differed each time you crossed into another stateâs border. In 2010, when the Common Core State Standardsâbasically an agreed-upon list of concepts for each
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In my last blog, I talked about old-school allowance, both the pitfalls my husband and I saw with our system for our three kids and the solution we eventually worked out. (Thank goodness for spreadsheets!) But thereâs a new twist on allowance that has emerged over the past few years: techno money management. Instead of
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After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, I was surprised to learn that homeownerâs insurance didnât cover much of the damage. I dug into the topic for a series on NPR and learned that the government’s National Flood Insurance Program is subsidized by the government at an average cost of $600 a year. Itâs not all
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