Detailed item info | Details | | Series: | Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf |
| | Size | | Length: | 255 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in. | | Width: | 5.8 in. | | Thickness: | 0.8 in. | | Weight: | 14.4 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | For the 36 million American families trying to raise responsible savers, earners, spenders and investors. In her sharp, intuitive book, Kids and Money, Jayne A. Pearl offers scores of innovative, proven solutions for problems that concern parents of children ages 4 to 18+. Pearl talked to everyone-from personal finance experts to professors to money psychologists to families across the nation-and the result is a tremendously practical, helpful book for today's parents. Pearl's goal in writing Kids and Money was to track down the most relevant solutions and real-life strategies for helping parents teach their children lifelong money skills and values. What to tell kids about money, and when. How to make children financially responsible-and ultimately, financially independent. How to defend against misconceptions and questionable values picked up from television, films, advertising, credit card companies, friends' families, and adults (even parents themselves). Kids and Money guides readers through financial milestones: allowances, credit cards, first jobs, budgeting, and saving for college. It helps parents, including single parents and blended families, face tough issues like shoplifting, gambling, and overspending. And it offers practical tips about wealth, estate planning, and charitable giving over a wide range of family money situations. Kids and Money is sensible and its advice is easy to implement. It will be of value to parents who are financially knowledgeable. To parents who aren't, it will be a gift. Features: Transforming shopping trips from battles over bucks into cooperative learning experiences; A four-step plan to help kids create- and use-a budget; Tips for minimizing college costs and maximizing college saving; Leads to valuable programs offered by banks, public companies, and financial markets; Includes worthwhile resources: web sites, books, periodicals, multimedia products, software; Speaks to a full range of family financial circumstances. Jayne A. Pearl is an independent journalist and author, formerly on the staff of Forbes magazine and a co-launcher of Family Business magazine. She has been writing about business and finance for nearly 20 years. She is, of course, a parent!
In her sharp and intuitive book, Pearl offers scores of innovative strategies to help parents teach children lifelong money skills and values.
| | Industry reviews | The importance of teaching children the skills of financial management cannot be overemphasized. Pearl, a business reporter and editor, provides methods for parents and educators to teach kids how to devise and stick to a budget, keep track of where money goes, set goals, be wary of advertising and other commercial enterprises, and stop impulse spending. The chapter on saving and investing would be useful to anyone interested in learning more about simple vs. compound interest, CDs, DRIPs, and the stock market. The appendix is filled with more than 80 online resources that can help the whole family learn together. In addition to money matters, career and job-hunting information as well as college and entrepreneurial sites are included. Neale S. Godfrey's Ultimate Kids' Money Book (S. & S., 1998) covers less and costs more. Most families should add this guide to their personal libraries, and public and school libraries should consider purchase as a public service. Susan C. Awe, Univ. of New Mexico Lib., Albuquerque
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