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Prevent This: Back-to-School Buyer’s Remorse

While many things look and feel very different this fall, kids have still grown and moved onto the next grade, and smart back-to-school shopping still requires families to ask and answer the same three questions they did before the pandemic.

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Prevent This: Back-to-School Buyer’s Remorse

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Develop Money Privilege Empathy With Your Teens

Sharing details about your adolescence helps tweens and teens understand why you use and think about money like you do. Not everything has changed since we were kids. For example, families still have to balance earning and spending.

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Develop Money Privilege Empathy With Your Teens

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The Only Problem With Summer Jobs

Summer job paychecks "don't come with instructions." (Actually, paychecks never come with instructions.) This is why you want to talk with your teens about how best to proceed before they start receiving any.

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The Missing (Financial) Link

Fred Selinger's "The Missing Link" offers 27 Chapters of granular instruction on how to build personal financial peace of mind from your first post-graduation paycheck forward. We recommend it a lot to new college graduates.

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Child Development . Financial Literacy . For Parents .

Where’s the Off Button?

Humans can be like computers in that if we allow ourselves to "turn off and then on again," we can reset. This is why we love Spring Break. It gives families the chance to do just that, at home or away.

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Instructions for Toothpaste?

Regular toothbrushing permanently improved the well-being of citizens everywhere after the Second World War. Thinking before buying is a similarly simple but powerful habit!

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Be Prepared to Be Amazed

Celeste Hedlee's TED Talk on the components of a great conversation underscore why thinking-before-buying does so much more than just help families save money. It also helps them have great money conversations!

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Child Development . Prevent This .

Prevent This: Not Slowing Down in the Summer

Everyone knows people and experiences matter more than things. Still, we spend so much of our waking hours chasing grades or earning money to support our families that that message sometimes gets hidden.

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Prevent This: Not Slowing Down in the Summer

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

The Blessing(s) of an Empty Wallet

Lynne Twist believes that examining our attitudes toward buying can help eradicate world hunger. Similarly, teaching kids how to think before they buy can eliminate basic financial illiteracy. See why we loved her book "The Soul of Money"?

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Child Development . For Parents . For Teachers .

Parents are Using the DIMS SCORE® Calculator!

We built the DIMS-DOES IT MAKE SENSE?® SCORE Calculator to help people teach their kids to think before they buy. But adults are using it too!

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Parents are Using the DIMS SCORE® Calculator!

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