In Part 1, I reflected on the foundational lessons we taught our kids about finances when they were young—saying no, avoiding debt, and gradually transitioning them to independence. Now that two of them are adults and one is still a teenager, we’ve shifted to teaching...
Fourteen years ago, I wrote a post about how we were teaching our young children about finances. It all started with one word: “No.” Not just saying it but teaching our kids to say it to themselves. At the time, those lessons felt simple but essential—teaching them to...
I have seen this newspaper clipping floating around the internet for a while now and it suddenly struck me that maybe the judge is talking to the wrong people. Maybe the people who need these words are the parents. And they need to be said to them before their kids...
