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 [...]
Last week we were mentioned (at the end) in a news piece on financial literacy camps. A related article was put on line today on abc News. Article is below and you can also click below to read the whole piece and watch the little video. FFinance Camps Create Young CEOs: New Summer Camps: Learn [...]
A few weeks ago I got a call from Inc.com’s Tamara Schweitzer, one of the online magazines staff writers on the subject of “How to Recession-Proof Your Kids”. There were several great contributions to this article, including yours truly. It's worth your time to check it out), and this is especially true if you have [...]
Our children are going to have to 'do money' differently when they get older. The economy has been shifting for many years now, moving from employee driven to entrepreneur driven. Our Camp Millionaire program helps kids learn to invest in the Three Pillars of Wealth and building businesses is one of those pillars. Changing the [...]
What exactly IS the value of education? Well, the answer is a definite, "It depends..." It depends on what you do with the information. It depends on whether what you learned is relative to what you're doing. It depends on if you set an intention to learn the information for a specific purpose. It depends [...]
Just a thought... What if our kids learned about math in school from their financial literacy classes? What if our kids learned about writing by preparing amazing business plans that could actually be funded and turned into real businesses to set the kids on incredible journeys of self-reliance, doing great and providing for others? What [...]
“The best defense is a good offense.” ~ Dan Gable, Olympic gold medalist and most successful coach in history. Imagine trying to teach your child to be a major league pitcher but never giving him a ball to throw, never putting him on the field, never giving him a glove and, oh yeah, never teaching [...]
The month of July for most American's conjures up images of loud, flashy fireworks, friendly back yard BBQs and the thrilling sound of our national anthem, "Our country 'tis of these, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing." America was built on a solid foundation of freedom for all, with the additional caveat that [...]
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 [...]
There's a great new site called PersonalGrowth.com. Manny Goldman gives you some wonderful resources to learn and grow in a multiple of ways. One of the things that I am committed to is staying open to all new information. I teach all my participants the following: 1) The three most dangerous words in the English [...]
Financial literacy is the ability to understand and manage one's financial resources.