Talking about money can be hard so use these titles to help you with those money conversations. Books are divided into sections depending on the age of your children from pre-schooler/early readers to young adult/teens.
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How to Teach and Talk to Kids About Money
It's important to keep this mind especially when it comes to money. Money conversations must start at home. Parents and guardians must accept the responsibility of exposing their kids to money concepts before media and peers influence that money mindset. If there’s fear, secrecy or anger in the money conversations now, that can get carried over to adulthood.
How to Make Your Child a Millionaire Using the Child Tax Credit
In a few weeks, many families will start receiving an advance of the Child Tax Credit. This advance can mean having extra cash to help with raising dependents each month for the rest of the year. Alternatively, you can opt-out of receiving the advance payments and wait until you file your taxes next year to receive the full amount. If your income changes in 2021, there could be a possibility that you will have to repay a portion of the advance. You can head to this tool to make adjustments to the payments or other income info. Note: this tool will need to verify your ID so you’ll need to provide some sensitive information to do so.
It’s a good idea to have a plan for this money. If you have the means to and are fairly sure you won’t have major income changes to affect the payment, it may be wise to plan to invest this money for the sake of your child’s future.
In this post, we will review a few options on how you can invest the money you will receive.
Teach Kids Money Series: Educate Children About Entrepreneurship with Pongee Barnes
This week’s guest for our Teach Kids Money Series is Pongee Barnes of Little Owners. Pongee began her career in real-estate while in college. She is an entrepreneur and has co-written a series along with her sons all about kid entrepreneurship as a way to each financial literacy and entrepreneurship,
Teach Kids Money Series: Start the Money Conversation Early with Tasha Danielle
This week’s guest post in our Teach Kids Money Series is from Tasha Danielle of Financial Garden. Tasha is a CPA based in Michigan. She founded Financial Garden to help spread financial literacy for all ages. In her book: Amina’s Bracelet: A Kidpreneur Story, both parents and kids can learn about entrepreneurship. Tasha stresses the importance of starting the money conversation early before someone else influences your kids.
Teach Kids Money Series: Financial Literacy Begins at Home with Maya Corbic
This week for our Teach Kids Money Series, we have Maya Corbic, CPA, CA from Dinarii Financial Education Academy. Maya stresses the fact that financial literacy begins at home and that parents already have the basic knowledge to teach their kids the basics of money.
How To Prepare Your Kids to Have a Solid Money Foundation Post Pandemic
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
With many households experiencing economic hardships, it’s more important now more than ever to have money conversations and teach kids the basics of financial literacy. Times are different and it’s very easy for kids to be influenced by social media and their peers without truly understanding the consequences of their actions. Kids who grow up without a proper financial foundation may grow into adults who fear money leading to inaction or bad decisions, furthering a cycle of bad money habits.
So what can we do?
The good news is that parents can start money lessons at home. To help you, we’ve rounded up some resources from financial educators who specialize in teaching parents AND kids all about money. There’s no shame or blame in financial education. If you are learning new money concepts along with your child, then let it be the case.