empowering children

What Kids Think About Money

July 11, 2011

(Guest Blog – by Jan Ruskin) What Kids Believe You might be surprised to know that, by the time kids graduate high school, they will probably have adopted the two following limiting beliefs: Money can cause a lot of problems. It’s better to give than to receive. You might NOT be surprised, though, if either [...]

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Financial Education: Right or Privilege?

May 27, 2010

Financial Education: Fact or Fiction In 2001, a young woman started questioning her lack of financial education as she looked around and saw so many WITH money but even more WITHOUT. She didn’t understand how she’d gotten mostly A’s in high school and college, knew how to grow freezers and pantries full of food, take [...]

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Stop DOING For Your Children…Empower Them Instead!

March 11, 2010

As parents, most of us want our children to have a happy childhood and, way too often, that translates into ‘doing’ for our children so that they can experience life in as pleasant a way as possible…before they grow up and have to be so darn responsible. The mistake parents make, however, is doing TOO [...]

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Raising Children Full of Possibility

March 23, 2009

Along our journey through childhood, we made decisions about ourselves that limit our possibilities instead of enhance them. It’s only when we’re very mature adults that we realize that we generally get what we argue for in life.   As a parent, your job is to empower your children; teach them to sing, and fly [...]

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