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Smart saving habits start at home. Credit: Ekomini
We all know that teaching our kids to read and write is crucial to their success in life, but what about teaching them to save, spend and budget money? According to Philippe Racine, the creator ...

Money Management for Kids

Imagine the U.S. without a constitution or a corporation without a business plan: that's your family without a financial policy that reflects your values about money and possessions. If you want your kids to grow up with a healthy respect for ...

Kevin Federline Launches Kid Clothing Line

Kevin Federline, aka K-Fed, aka the ex-Mr. Britney Spears, aka "one of the most reviled guys in the U.S. of A.," has a new idea. A children's clothing line. According to Women's Wear Daily, K-Fed was in Las Vegas to check out the Project trade ...

Preparing Kids For A Smaller Christmas

It's official -- the U.S. economy is in a recession. So what does that mean for Santa's sack? For many of us, it will be much smaller this year. If you're like me and you tend to go overboard at the holidays, but you're cutting back this year, ...

Kids are expensive - So what are you doing differently?

If you had a kid in 2007, you'll spend approximately $204,060 over the course of the next 18 years on the care and feeding of that baby. I know! And that's only for ONE kid. Got two? Make that $408,120. And have you heard? Three is the new two -- I ...

Barack Obama's daughters get $1 a week allowance

Even though their dad is running for President of the United States, Malia and Sasha Obama have a remarkably normal daily life. Household rules include no teasing or fighting, making their beds every morning, and getting themselves up and dressed for ...

Teaching kids the value of money

Let's say you've been out shopping with your child. Your child has been good. Your child asks for the latest must-have widget on the shelf. The widget is less than twenty dollars. What do you do? According to J. F. Straw, you should tell the little ...

Chores and allowance: what we're doing

My husband and I have been going back and forth about creating a list of chores for our kids. My daughter is 7 and has been asking for over a year, she wants an allowance and would like to save for things we really don't want to buy her like the ...

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