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Holiday Weekends Are a Great Time to Teach Kids About Money

We are often asked when is the best time to teach kids about money? Our quick answer is: When they want some! Which is why holiday weekends, with all of their open invitations to spend, are a perfect starting place.

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Holiday Weekends Are a Great Time to Teach Kids About Money

Child Development . Financial Literacy . For Parents . For Teachers .

Gifting Sense Recognized at the MAIAs

Gifting Sense was recognized as one of the Best Non-profit School-aged Financial Education Programs at the 2022 MAIAs. Learn all about the Money Awareness & Inclusion Awards and who else won.

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Child Development . Financial Literacy . For Parents . For Teachers .

Answering Chicago’s “Questions to Pose”

The Financial Education Initiative at the University of Chicago developed a set of questions parents and community members can ask schools to understand if a financial education program is high-quality and unbiased. We answered all of them.

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Child Development . For Parents . Inspiring Financial Writers . Smart Gifting .

Get Her “Rich Girl, Broke Girl” Instead

Kelley Keehn’s eleventh personal finance book offers a series of succinct composite narratives that just might be able to prevent your daughter from experiencing financial heartbreak, on top of the traditional kind. Sounds like a meaningful holiday gift.

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Child Development . Financial Literacy . For Parents . For Teachers .

Should We Use A Different Acronym?

Feel like you are living in the movie Groundhog Day? Back to school is supposed to be the high season for fresh starts. Maybe we can get closer to that ideal if we use a different acronym than "Return to Office"?

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Gifting Sense Is On Outschool!

There are now THREE ways kids can learn how to spend with a plan: have them calculate the DIMS SCORE^® for a possible purchase at home, at school or on Outschool!

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Child Development . Financial Literacy . Inspiring Financial Writers . Teacher Resources .

Put A Cape On Ms. Taub!

Robin Taub is a CPA, best-selling author, and financial literacy thought-leader. But we're recommending "The Wisest Investment" for an unconventional reason: she's already accomplished what many parents dream of!

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Child Development . DIMS SCORE® Questions . For Parents . Gifts & Holidays .

A Big Free FinLit Lab?

We know, the giant online retailer has become a lightening rod for small business suffering during the pandemic. They are not a perfect corporation. However, they do help us teach kids how to think before they buy - for free. Learn how.

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Child Development . DIMS SCORE® Questions . Financial Literacy . For Parents . For Teachers . Inspiring Financial Writers .

We Love This Woman’s Work

Behavioural scientist Dr. Wendy De La Rosa has a series of short but on-the-money TED Talks that are cause for celebration at the Gifting Sense project! Learn how to reduce financial stress with simple concrete steps that change your spending environment.

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Can You See The Future? We Can!

When we think further out into the future, we see all the ways today's children can almost completely avoid personal financial stress. Learn how your family can help ensure that twenty years from now, our vision is reality.

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