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Jun 30, 20221 min read

Is your teen ready to leave home and live independently?

Is your teen ready to leave home and live independently? · Most schools leave financial education to the parents. · Teach...

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Achieve Financial Literacy. Guides for Teens, Parents and All Adults

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Jun 25, 20222 min read

Achieve Financial Literacy. Guides for Teens, Parents and All Adults

Our books, posts and blogs focus on helping children and adults achieve financial literacy.. Raising Financially Independent Children...

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How can you teach your teen to evaluate alternatives and make decisions

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Jun 22, 20221 min read

How can you teach your teen to evaluate alternatives and make decisions

How can you teach your teen to evaluate alternatives and make decisions within realistic financial constraints? Here is a story from...

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Do you know how to create a budget now that you are partners?

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Jun 20, 20221 min read

Do you know how to create a budget now that you are partners?

Here is one story from Financial Essentials for Couples that may give you some ideas. “Maria and Manuel were diligent with having a...

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Are you feeling stressed from high gas prices?

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Jun 18, 20221 min read

Are you feeling stressed from high gas prices?

Inflation can take a real toll on your budget. For many people the gas bill has almost doubled, and they don’t know how to cover this new...

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Jun 15, 20221 min read

What do I do in this volatile market

The stock market, interest rates, and inflation have changed dramatically in 2022. The last period like this was in 1980 so many of you...

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Do you know how to create a budget now that you are partners? Here is one story from Financial Essen

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Jun 13, 20221 min read

Do you know how to create a budget now that you are partners? Here is one story from Financial Essen

Maria and Manuel were diligent with having a budget, tracking it, and trying to stay within their budget. They had $400 budgeted each...

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Jun 11, 20221 min read

Budgeting teaches kids how to wait

If your child wants something expensive like a Scooter or bicycle, it is a good idea to have your child save for part of the cost. You...

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Chidden can learn at an early age to track there spending

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Jun 4, 20221 min read

Chidden can learn at an early age to track there spending

Teach your childre4n early to track their spending. Watch the video to see a simple table which shows how to keep track of a running...

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What are some of the ways a couple handles bills and expenses?

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May 31, 20221 min read

What are some of the ways a couple handles bills and expenses?

There are varying approaches to sharing bills and setting up your accounts to make it easy to track where you are. One way is to open a...

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How to incorporate finances into your child’s everyday life

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May 28, 20221 min read

How to incorporate finances into your child’s everyday life

Allowance is one of the best ways a parent can teach a child about money. It is really the first time your child is learning to budget....

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Wondering what investments might keep up with inflation and be safe enough to invest in for your chi

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May 26, 20221 min read

Wondering what investments might keep up with inflation and be safe enough to invest in for your chi

If you use I bonds to help finance higher education the interest is federal tax-free. The additional benefit is flexibility if...

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May 22, 20221 min read

Do I really understand college loans?

ollege loans are very complex. It is important to understand what the final cost of the loan will be. You need to understand the...

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The importance of starting a retirement account early.

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May 20, 20221 min read

The importance of starting a retirement account early.

The power of compounding means that every extra year that your money is invested can have a big impact on the total that you will have...

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What is a trust and when should you get one?

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May 19, 20221 min read

What is a trust and when should you get one?

A trust gives you a way to specify who should take over for you if you are incapacitated and cannot manage your affairs. If you have...

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Why should your child get their first credit card at 16?

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May 14, 20221 min read

Why should your child get their first credit card at 16?

Did you know that landlords may require a certain credit score to rent their property? And that credit scores may be used to set interest...

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May 12, 20221 min read

What is risk tolerance?

Risk tolerance is how much of a loss you are prepared to handle within your portfolio. Your goals, investing timeline and comfort level...

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You may have noticed that the stock market be very volatile this year

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May 10, 20222 min read

You may have noticed that the stock market be very volatile this year

You may have noticed that the stock market has dropped quite a bit in 2022! Is this an opportunity to invest for the long term? Read...

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May 8, 20221 min read

How to incorporate finances into your child’s everyday life.

Allowance is one of the ways a parent can teach a child about money. It is really the first time your child is learning to budget. Based...

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Have you wondered how to budget now that you are partners?

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May 4, 20221 min read

Have you wondered how to budget now that you are partners?

Maria and Manuel always argued about how much to spend when eating out. In Chapter 3 of Financial Essentials for Couples you can read how...

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