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The Ultimate Guide to Convincing Your Parents to Help You Buy Something

Talking to parents about money, particularly spending, can be easy. How? Consider entering the conversation having quickly researched answers to the four questions most adults ask themselves when shopping.

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The Ultimate Guide to Convincing Your Parents to Help You Buy Something

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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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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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What We Have Learned Delivering Workshops

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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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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Allowance Best Practices for Teens

Teens can begin to think of expenses in terms of annual amounts/ buckets. Discuss whether you'll allow borrowing from the clothing bucket to help pay for electronic devices or vice versa. Digital is now OK.

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Allowance Best Practices For Kids 12 & Under

Children under 12 can benefit from receiving their first allowances in cash. You may also want to consider having them calculate the DIMS SCORE® for holiday or birthday wish-list items they might be willing to help pay for themselves.

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Allowance Best Practices For Kids 12 & Under

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Don’t Get Burned by Giving Allowance Without Structure

Receiving an allowance lets young people earn, spend, save, invest (eventually), and share money during the time in their young lives when their money personalities are still being developed. So, what's the best way to give it?

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Don’t Get Burned by Giving Allowance Without Structure

Financial Literacy . For Parents . Gifts & Holidays .

Why Crowd-Funding For Childhood Gifts Makes Sense

We've never met a grandparent, aunt, or uncle who wouldn't rather spend their hard-earned money on items and experiences that will be used and appreciated versus on books that aren't read, earrings that are never worn, or games that don't get played. Enter crowd-funding.

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Why Crowd-Funding For Childhood Gifts Makes Sense

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