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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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Child Development . Financial Literacy . For Teachers .

Who Knew? TBB is Curriculum Compliant!

At the end of an incredibly interesting year at the Gifting Sense project, we've learned that our unique approach to Thinking Before Buying is almost universally compliant with financial literacy curriculum requirements throughout North America.

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Child Development . Financial Literacy . For Teachers . Gifts & Holidays . Holiday Hacks . Smart Gifting .

What We Have Learned Delivering Workshops

Are you a Teacher in Grades 4 through 9? Learn how easy it is to deliver a Gifting Sense workshop to your own students, in your own classroom (or online) for free. We'll even send you a Gifting Sense pencil for every one of your kids!

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