Almost 10 year journey I embarked on a journey into the fascination field of financial education and along the way, there have been people and processes added to our programs that enhanced their effectiveness by leaps and bounds. One of these activities was suggested by my life partner, Steve Gordon, and it had to do with [...]
We not only have licensed our full Camp Millionaire to Magda Galuszka in Poland but this person also purchased The Money Game and sent us a fun testimonial this morning. Thought you might enjoy... Dear Jan, I wanted to let you know that I have already used the game (a very short version of it) [...]
Question from Money Game Coach: I am doing a presentation to a Financial Institution in August with the aim to have them sponsor ME to run the 'Money Game' in schools and/or as an after school program. If you have any tips I would love to her them! Answer: Hi...in response to your question about [...]
Because I constantly check in with the folks who purchase The Ultimate Allowance, I frequently get questions in my email box about little things (which are always big things:-). Usually they are simple but here are a few I thought I'd share from a dad with three sons. He's about to start the 8-year old [...]
Here's a great article entitled, "5 lessons to teach kids how interest works" written by Tamara E. Holmes: http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/five-credit-lessons-teach-kids-how-iinterest-works-1267.php
Easter was always a day of baskets and colored eggs and ham and it was created by my mom...as I think so many Easters are. Today, I just wanted to stop in and wish you a warm, wonderful Easter and may it mean all that you wish it to today for you and yours. Elisabeth [...]
Just wanted to drop in a wish you a Happy Easter! Elisabeth
For decades, if not longer, parents have believed that the only way for their children to do well in life was to get a college degree and then get a nice steady job so they could save up and retire when it was time. This belief continues, even though the world supporting the belief has [...]
How many hours you can teach with The Money Game depends on the following... How many students/players you have. The larger the group, the longer it takes to teach each round. How many rounds of the game you decide to play in one hour. You can play them quickly or more leisurely. The number of [...]
You know...there are certain books that, after you've read them, change your life so thoroughly you can't imagine what your life would have been like, or where it would have gone, had you NOT read them. This is how I feel about the following books which are required for all Creative Wealth Coaches and highly [...]
If you've ever taught a group of kids, or even if you haven't, you know what it's like to maintain some semblance of order in a group bigger than, oh...say...two! It doesn't take long for kids to get over their awkward self-consciousness and form little cliques, etc. The longer they spend time together, the more [...]
Death to PowerPoint! OK, well, not total death...PowerPoint presentations, aka slide shows, might be great for making funding presentations or showing graphs, cartoons, charts, or other illustrations to a group of people. But as a teaching tool, they are, more often than not, a crutch used by untrained presenters. They are boring, confuse the learner [...]
