Kids And Charity: Becoming A Charitable Family – Part II

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As important as it is to model giving behaviors, it’s just as important to provide kids with a context for a given charitable act and help them see its real world impact. Context means giving your kids a reason why they should get involved. This doesn’t just mean explaining why but choosing a particular activity [...]

Kids And Charity: Becoming A Charitable Family – Part I

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As much as we want our children to be good money managers – to use their allowances wisely, to balance a checkbook and so on – it’s equally important to provide our children with more than basic money skills. Our kids need to grow up to be “giving” human beings in the best sense of [...]

Becoming A Charitable Family

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All of us want our children to have a healthy relationship with money. We want them to learn how to handle their allowances wisely, to balance their checkbooks and not to abuse credit cards. But a healthy relationship with money goes far beyond simply being a good money manager. Our kids need to grow up [...]