Afraid To Talk To Your Kids About Money? My Mom Is Not
If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Raising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with “the bottom line,” with how our children “do” rather than with who our children “are.” We pour time, attention, and money into insuring their performance, consistently making it to their soccer game ... See more
Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
“I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Mai
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If we do get stuck thinking kids can’t handle money or budgeting, it’s often for three reasons: We start teaching them too late. We try teaching too much at once. We try teaching lessons that aren’t relevant to our kids’ lives. It’s important to flip these roadblocks: Start early. Go slowly. Stay within our kids’ reality.