Raising Financially Fit Kids

by Joline Godfrey

Book Overview

This combination parenting and personal finance book helps parents teach their children key money skills--such as saving, spending, budgeting, investing, building credit, and donating--that they'll... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580085369
• ISBN13: 9781580085366
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Best Parenting Guide To Teaching Kids About Money!

This is the best guide to teaching kids about money. I've got 3 small and busy kids and not much time to read. This book is great because it's easy (but not insulting) and offers concrete activities - outlined in charts (minimal reading required). One of the best things about this book is that it makes you think about your own money values and how you express yourself with money. Then it gives you ideas of how to teach your kids about money in a way that matches YOUR family's ideas...and it gives tips on how to "tweak" the message, depending on your children's personalities. The book is divided into age-appropriate sections, so advice for parents of 5 year olds is different from that of parents of 9 or 13 or 18 year olds. This is a great book you will use for years.

realistic, easy to understand, interesting!

Teaching kids about money is a challenge Joline Godfrey tackles beautifully. Do we share our budgets with them or shield them from the harsh reality of adult life? How much is too much - allowance, birthday money, "fun" money? Can we keep our kids from ammassing unmanageable credit card debt when they get older? Joline Godfrey offers practical advice that is reasonable and accessible for people of average, above average and below average means alike. Let's teach our kids more effectively than we were taught!

Share the Wealth!

How exciting to see the lessons of financial responsibility presented in a family friendly manner! The icing on the cake is the attention to sharing financial resources and taking seriously the welfare of those outside your immeidate family. In a time when kids, and adults, are attracted by How To Be A Millionaire or Homes of the Rich and Famous, the message that financial know how can be used for more than our own personal gain is sorely needed. This book would be good not only for families, but in classrooms and club settings. Well done!

Get Past Your Own Money Paralysis

If you're like me and millions of other parents, aunts, uncles, etc. you don't feel equipped to teach the kids in your life about money because of your own issues. Raising Financially Fit Kids helped me get beyond my money paralysis by encouraging me to realize that it's important to start somewhere, even if it's just with baby steps. The author, Joline Godfrey, reminds us that money is a tool, not an end into itself, to be used to impart the type of values we hope our children will develop during their financial apprenticeship. The content is first rate and the design easy to navigate. I highly recommend it.

Great Hands On Guide

Raising Financially Fit Kids provides outstanding "real world applications" for teaching money skills to the kids in your life. We've completed several of them with nieces and nephews. The kids have fun and learn great skills. We've learned along with them. This book is not only visually appealing, but incredibly well designed with flip out charts of activities. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with kids, or a desire to expand their own money skills!