Simple Ways to Help Your Kids Become Dollar-Smart

by Elizabeth Lewin and Bernard Ryan Jr.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802774296
• ISBN13: 9780802774293
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Useful and easy to read

While this book does have some information that seems strange (software recommendations for computers that aren't even made anymore, for example), the financial advice is sound. What's great about it is that each item is short and easy to read. I kept it on the kitchen table and just digested it in little bits, between children needing one thing or another. Also, any tips that might be controversial (don't tie allowance to chores, for example) goes through the authors' thinking on the matter. You may have to take a few of their investment projections with a grain of salt, though. Realistically, whoever thought interest rates would be what they are today? The only other thing I would complain about is the advice to start planning for college money no later than junior year of high school. I guess if your kids have been learning about money their whole lives that might not be terrible advice, but I think you need to start planning a little earlier. But when it comes to young children, their observations are spot-on.