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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

DIMS SCORE Questions . Financial Literacy . For Parents . For Teachers .

DIMS – DOES IT MAKE SENSE?^® Scores Help Kids Develop Good Financial Defense

After age 10, most kids know a sports team needs offense and defense to win a game. Guess what? So it goes with managing your personal finances. Learn about our most popular teaching metaphor and the former MLB player who we think would love it.

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DIMS – DOES IT MAKE SENSE?® Scores Help Kids Develop Good Financial Defense

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Born Before the Smartphone?

This year, the annual "Tech Up For Women" Conference in N.Y.C. will include a Gifting Sense booth. Learn more about the organization committed to eliminating the fear factor in all things tech for women at all levels of business and life, even those born before the smartphone.

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Child Development . Financial Literacy .

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

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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Financial Literacy . Holiday Hacks . Smart Gifting .

Four Words That Teach Financial Literacy

The Gifting Sense Glossary can be a terrific way to prepare kids for, or dismount from, a thinking-before-buying workshop. Email it, print it off, or have your students read it online.

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Four Words That Teach Financial Literacy

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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Financial Literacy . For Parents . For Teachers . Sustainability .

Happy Half Birthday Gifting Sense!

This is a post from May of 2016. Take a walk down memory lane with some of our earliest media coverage. We can't believe it's been nine years since we launched. There was a worldwide pandemic, but where does the time go?

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Child Development . Financial Literacy . Inspiring Financial Writers .

Why You Want “Fresh” Kids

Ron Leiber knows "spoiled" has no useful antonym. Hence the title of his latest book on raising money-smart young people. Learn why our DIMS SCORE^® Calculator is a tool "fresh kids" will enjoy.

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