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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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Financial Literacy . For Parents . For Teachers . Gifts & Holidays .

Happy Holidays Raj Chetty

Raj Chetty and his colleagues at Opportunity Insights have a study that we are interpreting as a call to arms for higher income earners to where possible, responsibly spend locally, until public health measures can restore broader consumer confidence and spending.

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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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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

Financial Literacy . For Parents . For Teachers .

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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DIMS SCORE® Questions . For Parents . For Teachers . Gifts & Holidays . Sustainability .

Learn How the Holidays Can Be D.O.W.N. with Sustainability

At the 2018 T.E.D. Women's Summit, we discovered a new way to describe our particular brand of early financial education: It's D.O.W.N. with sustainability. How so? The DIMS SCORE^® Calculator "Designs Out Waste Now!"

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Learn How the Holidays Can Be D.O.W.N. with Sustainability

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Summer Reading To The Rescue

Long summer breaks from school offer families some reprieve, but an equal amount of childcare challenge. It sounds trite, but reading can soak up a lot of time that might otherwise be lost to less productive activities. And libraries offer all sorts of free summer programming.

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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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Child Development . DIMS SCORE® Questions . For Kids . For Parents .

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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