Planning Wealth

“Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers” is a parent-friendly curriculum for teaching your teens how to live as morally and financially responsible adults. The book includes instructions for customizing the curriculum for all teens, whether they’re work-bound or college-bound. Step-by-step projects (requiring minimal preparation by parents) teach your teens about credit cards, auto and health insurance, taxes, and many other subjects they’ll face once they’re on their own, and will get them ready for a life of managing their money with a goal of financial freedom. Reading and writing assignments review the principles your teens need to get along with family, friends and coworkers, and to live their values in their personal and work lives. This book is a compilation of all the practical things you wish you’d been taught in high school. Now you can make sure your teens are ready for life “out of the nest.”

Current research tells us today’s kids and teens don’t know how to budget or spend wisely. They have purchasing influence, but they aren’t prepared to handle money. Parents presume that their kids “get it” or that they are learning these skills in school. Yet kids still need parental guidance on how to manage money. Your Kids Can Master Their Money reveals key traits of financially wise people and gives parents tools to instill those traits in their children.

Using real-life humorous examples of a child running free in the candy store to the adult at the mall you can understand why many have continued to succumb to the backwards concept of “Working to Spend and Spending to Work”. By constantly surrounding themselves with material things, many will awaken one day to the NUMBING effects of quiet financial desperation. Dear Mommy and Daddy helps the reader gain an emotional financial Edge as they move forward to FREEDOM from the SHACKLES OF FINANCIAL BONDAGE!

Written for “tweens” and young teens who’d like to make some money, What Color Is Your Piggy Bank? challenges them to start their own small businesses and provides the necessary how-to steps and encouragement. It is filled with tips, quizzes, fun facts, quotations, and real-life success stories that keep youngsters focused and help them get their ideas off the ground. With an eye toward instilling positive future habits, the author also offers good general advice on saving and spending money wisely and giving back to the community. But the book’s goal is not just about money – in the process of running a business, young adults learn how to think for themselves, emphasize personal strengths, deal with others in a professional manner, and manage time and resources – all great skills for just about anything they choose to do in the future.

This newly updated edition of Growing Money answers every question a budding investor might ask: How do you read stock pages? What’s the difference between stocks and bonds? Why do stocks go up and down? How can I keep track of investments? Can kids invest?

There has never been a time when the world of finance has been so much a part of kids’ daily lives. Today’s kids want to know everything about money-especially how to make it grow. This completely updated guide explains savings accounts, bonds, stocks, and even mutual funds! Included are fun quizzes to reveal a young investor’s risk tolerance, stories of success and failure, a behind-the-scenes look at the New York Stock Exchange, and best of all, an imaginary fund of dollars to invest, along with suggestions for selecting companies compatible with kids’ values. New to this edition are chapters on financial responsibility, true-life tales of other kid investors, and step-by-step instructions of just how to buy stocks. Tell your parents-investing isn’t only for grown-ups anymore!

Raising children ranks as one of life’s most rewarding adventures. Yet between Mom and Dad working full-time jobs, endless carpooling of overscheduled youngsters, and the never-ending pressures to buy and consume, family life can be incredibly—needlessly—complex. What if you could find a way to spend more time with your children, replace unnecessary activities with meaningful ones, and teach your children an invaluable life lesson in the process? Living Simply with Children offers a realistic blueprint for zeroing in on the pleasures of family life:

• How (and why) to live simply and find more time to be with your children
• Activities and rituals that bring out the best in every family member
• Realistic ways to reclaim your children from corporate America
• Helping children of any age deal with peer pressure
• Raising kids who care about people and the planet
• How to focus on the “good stuff” . . . with less stuff

Including sections on limiting television, environmentally friendly practices, celebrating the holidays, and tapping into the growing community of families who embrace simplicity, this inspiring guide will show you how to raise children according to your own values—and not those of the consumer culture—as you enjoy both quality and quantity time with your family.