teaching kids about money

Turn Fundraisers Into Powerful Entrepreneur Lessons for Kids

October 2, 2010

Every fall, it seems that droves of youngsters are sent out on the street to peddle chocolate bars, magazines or coffee subscriptions to raise money for their schools. Kids usually despise having to sell piddlyjunk* but as a parent or business owner, you can quickly and easily turn those anxiety-filled sales experiences into valuable entrepreneur [...]

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The Many Faces of Pay Yourself First

September 30, 2010

A Little Activity History Since I was a little girl, I have been active. Growing up on a farm with horses and gardens and lawns, a lake near by and a mysterious, murky pond within wondering distance, lent itself to never ending physical activity, exploration and play. Then, in college, I found my way into [...]

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The Right Age to Teach Kids About Money

August 5, 2010

Question: What is the right age to start teaching kids about money? Answer: If they are breathing, they should be learning about money! OK, that may seem a little over zealous, but here’s the thing… Just like our need for oxygen from the moment we pop out into the planet, most of us don’t survive [...]

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Teaching Financial Literacy Teachers

July 10, 2010

I have been holed up since Tuesday of this week (7/6/10) teaching a new group of trainers how to use accelerated learning to make financial education programs like Camp Millionaire more effective and so much more fun for the participants. Though I haven’t had much time to do anything but teach and sleep, I always [...]

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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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Why Our Financial Literacy Movement is Stuck!

May 12, 2010

Note from Elisabeth…I did NOT write this but easily could have. I have stubbed my toe (and brain) since 2002 on this path down financial literacy hell and I use that word because it the fact that we don’t teach it to kids and teens in schools ignites a passion in me hotter and brighter [...]

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Why Financial Literacy Doesn’t Work (and how to fix this)

February 1, 2010

Financial literacy does work, if you do it right. Problem is…most financial literacy curriculums and programs are boring and irrelevant.

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So it’s a brand new year…

January 7, 2010

It’s only January 6th and my decision to be fully conscious and aware of each day is already beginning to have little tiny frayed edges…but I think I’ve caught it in time to mend it soundly. It seems that no matter what we resolve to do differently, life just challenges us. “Right, show me you [...]

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Money is all around us; all we have to do is look for it…differently.

November 24, 2009

If you saw the wonderful movie, August Rush, about the musically gifted (that is an understatement) little boy who grew up in a home with other boys without families but knew down deep that his parents were alive, then you remember his saying… “The music’s all around us…all we have to do it listen.” Well, [...]

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Helping Others is Helping Yourself

November 16, 2009

A little history behind Camp Millionaire… When I was 38 years old, I was struck by an aha that has driven me ever since…I realized, quite simply, that the only reason I didn’t know about money as an adult was that no one taught me about it as a child.That one simple realization has led [...]

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