I've been thinking on this one for years. Parents have called and emailed me over the years, since I first created The Money Camp for Kids and Teens (now called Camp Millionaire) and told me that they want their children to learn the 'value of a buck.' I remember thinking the very first time I [...]
Set Goals as a Family - Succeed as a Family by Vince Shorb Setting financial goals together, as a family, allows each member of the family a feeling of ownership on the overall success of the family financial success. Setting these goals together creates unique bonds within a family, it takes into account the needs [...]
We've all heard the saying, "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." And yet, one of the things that I have noticed lately is that kids don't seem to know as many of the social graces that I learned when I was a kid. I wanted to mention just a few [...]
Current Allowance Theories After doing quite a lot of research and talking to many parents over the past 6 years, I’ve noticed the following allowance approaches: The “No Allowance At All” Camp In my experience, parents in this camp usually didn’t get an allowance when they were young. A common opinion is that if it [...]
I wrote this book for a couple of reasons. The first being a very simple one: I want to make sure as many kids as possible gain the financial skills they need to grow up happy, healthy, wealthy and wise. As I explain later in more detail, like many adults, I never got this information [...]