kids and money
Buying Your Teenager's First Car: What You Need to Know
6:30AM 7/20/2011
Buying your teen a first car is fraught with
emotions, and even more laden with financial implications: Used or new? Who pays for what? How much input does the new driver get in the purchase decision? How can you get the best deal on insurance? We surveyed the experts to get those answers and more.
Five Investing Rules You Can Learn From Kids
9:00AM 2/05/2011
Looking at investing from a child's perspective can be eye-opening. And you don't need to have kids of your own to heed these lessons. Here are five tips for thinking like a child -- and turning that into some grown-up profits.
Prepaid cards for kids hawked by a reality-show personality who became famous because of a sex tape: What could be wrong with that? Kim Kardashian has teamed with a financial services company to offer the Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard, which is being peddled to kids as young as 13 and their...
Should Drew Brees be going long to teach kids finance?
5:00PM 11/04/2010
While I applaud most efforts to improve kids' financial literacy, I still raise an eyebrow when famous jocks get involved. Such is the case with Super Bowl-winning quarterback Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints.
Brees is teaming with Visa to pump up students' knowledge about handling money. He...
Kids and money: blog readers weigh in with their favorite tips
5:00PM 9/14/2010
In anticipation of National Money Night Talk on Thursday -- an evening that American Express and I have dedicated to helping you talk to your kids about money -- we asked bloggers at three prominent money blogs to get top savings tips from their readers. They poured in. Here, our favorites:
Should you give your teen a credit card?
8:00AM 9/06/2010
Pens, check. Calculator, check. Notebook, check. Credit card? As kids head back into the classroom, parents of teens may find themselves wrestling with a far-from-academic question: Should you let your son or daughter have a credit card? Thanks to the CARD Act, the question is now more in your...
How to teach your kids the value of money
12:00PM 7/20/2010
I wrote a story for WalletPop last week on how to prepare your child for an allowance. For those who prefer video to reading, here's a TV interview I did the next day on "The View from the Bay," a San Francisco TV show.
If there's something on which most parents can agree, it's that there is an over-abundance of goods and services available today for infants and kids that just aren't necessary.
With a lot of more affluent, older parents around, the market for luxury clothing for infants, toddlers and...
10 smart ways to save on raising your kids
11:00AM 6/07/2010
There's a new price tag on parenthood and it ain't cheap -- but of course, that comes as no surprise to America's moms and dads. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the cost of raising a child has skyrocketed 22% since 1960, and now rings up at a whopping $11,650 to $13,530 per...
Free books at Borders for kids who read
12:01AM 5/20/2010
Borders has a summer reading program for kids 12 and younger that offers a free book for reading any 10 books of their choosing. No purchase necessary! Here is how it works:
1. Have your kid read 10 books this summer and write the titles on this form.
2. Sign the form and bring it into your...
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