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Mom Will Help You Get Into College, But Won't Help You Pay For It, Says a New Poll

Moms are less likely than dads to have a financial plan for their children's college educations. Credit: AMagill, Flickr
They say a mother's work is never done, but one survey says mothers are falling down on the job of saving for the kids' ...

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 ...

San Diego adds financial literacy to the curriculum

In a move that might have helped some of America's top bankers, San Diego Unified School District is adding a ten-day mini-course entitled "Personal Financial Literacy, the Game of Life" to the requirements for high school graduation. Developed by a ...

Raising financially savvy children

Despite growing up in an accounting office, I never really learned about money as a kid -- I learned the hard way later on. First, it was a department store credit card, followed by an American Express card. That made it easy to buy expensive gifts ...

Investing for teens

Here are some tips on how to teach your kids how and, perhaps more importantly, why they should begin investing for the future. This is, of course, an important skill to learn, should they ever want to own a home or retire or pretty much anything ...

Mandated money management courses

Wealth is certainly not a very good measure of success and we all know it doesn't buy happiness. It does, however, make life easier and can free up the time needed to pursue happiness. Debt, the opposite of wealth, can quickly lead to unhappiness. ...

Money lessons

Growing up, we never had much money. Allowance was something my parents were okay with in theory, but in practice it was something we rarely saw. So I never really learned much about handling money until I was an adult. I'm still not what you'd call ...

College credit cards

Got a kid heading off to college? Chances are, the school has an agreement to offer an "affinity" card. That is, a credit card branded with the university's name and, probably, a photo representative of the school. A portion of the profits from each ...

The Baby Billionaires Preschool

This month's New York Observer has a hilarious article on a fictitious Baby Billionaires Preschool, where the goal is "to provide a positive, age-appropriate experience in an environment which nurtures social and educational learning while preparing ...

The financial case for paid family leave

In order to take care of their newborn baby or ailing family member, many workers must either cut back their hours or stop working entirely. Comprehensive family leave initiatives -- programs that would allow such workers to take paid leaves of ...

Giving kids financial gifts

Are you tired of your kids asking for money or toys? Have you told them more than once that it's time they got a job, even though they're not even in kindergarten yet? Well, CNN Money has some ideas for you. They've put together a list of "five gifts ...

Teaching kids the value of money

I ran across this posting the other day about teaching kids what money is all about. I rather like the idea presented -- giving kids control over a part of the family budget that they care about. The example was McDonald's and video games, set at $20 ...

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