Here are some of our favorite resources. If you have a resource that you think we should add, please email jgallo@galloconsulting.com.
1. The Psychology Of Money & Family Wealth
Barber, Judy G.
Family Money: A Commentary on the Unspoken Issues Related to Wealth
Barber is a licensed psychotherapist who works as a family business consultant. Her newsletter is no longer published, but articles are now available on line. www.familymoneyconsultants.com
Blouin, Barbara
The Legacy Of Inherited Wealth: Interviews with Heirs (revised edition)
An exploration of the emotional consequences of inherited wealth through Interviews with heirs. Available through The Inheritance Project. www.inheritance-project.com
Chatzky, Jean
The Ten Commandments of Financial Happiness: Feel Richer With What You’ve Got (previously published under the title You Don’t Have To Be Rich: Comfort, Happiness and Financial Security On Your Own Terms), New York: Penguin Group (2003)
Explores the big picture: what makes a happy, successful life and how much money you really need to have one.
Collier, Charles W.
Wealth In Families, Cambridge: Harvard University (2001)
Family wealth and family values.
Dominguez, J. & Robin, V.
Your Money or Your Life, New York: Penguin Books (1992)
A nine-step program to take control of your money and achieve financial independence.
Kinder, George
Seven Stages of Money Maturity, New York: Dell Publishing (1999)
A Buddhist teacher and Harvard-trained financial planner looks at the spiritual and psychological issues surrounding our relationship with money.
Leder, Steven Z.
More Money Than God, Chicago: Bonus Books (2003)
A rabbi examines how money impacts our families, friends, work, loves, ethics, compulsions and feelings of self-worth.
Levy, John
Inherited Wealth: Opportunities and Dilemmas, BookSurge Publishing (2008)
Levy is one of the pioneers in this area. The results of research into the influence of inherited wealth on heirs.
Mellan, Olivia
Money Harmony, New York: Walker and Company (1994)
A psychotherapist and business consultant examines the emotional meaning of money to individuals and couples.
More Than Money: Exploring the personal, political, and spiritual impact of wealth in our lives
A quarterly publication written for people questioning society’s assumptions about money, and particularly for those with inherited or earned wealth seeking a more joyful, just and sustainable world.. www.morethanmoney.org
Needleman, Jacob
Money and the Meaning of Life, New York: Doubleday (1991)
An examination of the relationship between the quest for money and the quest for meaning. Also available on audiotape.
Orman, Suze
The 9 Steps To Financial Freedom, New York: Crown Publishers (1997)
A look at financial planning, combined with an examination of the psychological and spiritual meanings of money.
Salzer, Myra
Living Richly: Seizing the Potential of Inherited Wealth, Legacy Publications (2010)
A top financial advisor helps inheritors engage their wealth toward their personal potential.
Twist, Lynne
The Soul of Money, New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (2003)
Insights into our lives, our values and the essence of prosperity.
2. Parenting, Children and Money
Beacham, Susan
Money Savvy Generation: www.msgen.com
A website devoted to developing and bringing to market innovative products to help parents and educators teach kids the skills of basic personal finance. Take a look at the Money Savvy Pig.
Bodner, Janet
Kiplinger ‘s Dollars & Sense for Kids: What they need to know about money and how to tell them, Washington: Kiplinger Books (1999)
Talking to your kids about money without lecturing.
Bowlby, John
A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development, New York: Basic Books (1988)
The basic discussion of attachment theory for parents, by one of the primary researchers in the field.
Brazelton, T. Berry and Greenspan, Stanley
The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn, and Flourish, Cambridge: Perseus Books (2000)
The name says it all. A must read by two of the foremost authorities on child rearing.
Gallo, Eileen & Gallo, Jon
Silver Spoon Kids: How Successful Parents Raise Responsible Children, Chicago: Contemporary Books (2002)
Our first book. A guide for affluent parents to raise fiscally responsible children.
Gallo, Eileen & Gallo, Jon
The Financially Intelligent Parent: The 8 Steps To Raising Successful, Generous, Responsible Children, New York: New American Library/Penguin (2005)
The successor to Silver Spoon Kids examines the behaviors of financially intelligent parents.
Godfrey, Joline
Raising Financially Fit Kids, Berkeley: Ten Speed Press 2003
A must read. Teaching financial literacy to children.
Gottman, John
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, New York: Simon & Schuster (1997)
Teaching children to understand and regulate their emotional world.
Greenspan, Stanley
Building Healthy Minds, Cambridge: Perseus Books (1999)
Six experiences that create intelligence and emotional growth in babies and young children.
Guthrie, Elisabeth and Matthews, Kathy
The Trouble With Perfect, New York: Broadway Books (2002)
How parents can avoid the overachievement trap and still raise successful children.
Hausner, Lee
Children of Paradise, Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, Inc.(1990)
Another pioneer. Offers a parenting program for affluent parents to improve their skills and inspire healthy values in their children.
Imber-Black, Evan and Roberts, Janine
Rituals For Our Times, London: Jason Aronson, Inc. (1998)
How family rituals give the experience of meaning to our lives.
McMillon, Bill
Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others (Tenth Edition), Chicago: Chicago Press Review (2009)
The classic travel guide to more than 2000 ways to have a great vacation, anywhere in the world, while lending a helping hand to a worthwhile cause.
Owen, David
The First National Bank Of Dad: The Best Way To Teach Kids About Money, New York: Simon & Schuster (2003)
Explains how to give children real experience with all kinds of money situations.
Poulter, Stephan B.
Father Your Son: How to Become the Father You’ve Always Wanted to Be, New York: McGraw-Hill (2004)
Getting the confidence to be a true and loving father.
Riera, Michael
Staying Connected To Your Teenager, Massachusetts: Perseus Press (2003)
Maintaining connections and improving relationships with your adolescent.
Siegel, Daniel J & Hartzell, Mary
Parenting from the Inside Out: How A Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive, New York: Penguin Putnam Inc. (2003)
An approach to a deeper understanding of themselves that will help parents raise their children.
Taylor, Betsy
What Kids Really Want That Money Can’t Buy, New York: Warner Books (2003)
Tips for parenting in a commercial world.
3. Adult Children and Money
Adams, Jane
I’m Still Your Mother, New York: Delacorte Press (1994)
Practical advice on maintaining both closeness and healthy distance from grown children.
Adams, Jane
When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us: Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway, and Getting On with Our Lives, New York, Free Press (2003)
Assistance and comforting counsel to parents of adult children.
Apter, Terri
The Myth of Maturity: What Teenagers Need form Parents to Become Adults, New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2001)
Practical advice to parents about the transition to adulthood.
Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From the Late Teens Through the Twenties, Oxford University Press (2004)
A developmental psychologist explores the mindset of young people.
Levine, Mel
Ready or Not, Here Life Comes, New York: Simon & Schuster (2005)
Examines the paths adult children are on and offers ideas on how to change them.
Littwin, Susan
The Postponed Generation, New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc. (1986)
An early work on the trend among young adults to postpone the responsibilities and autonomy of adulthood.
Newman, Susan
Nobody’s Baby Now: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship with Your Mother and Father, New York: Walker & Company (2003)
Creating more positive adult relationships with your parents.
Robbins, Alexandra & Abby Milner
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties, New York: Putnam (2004)
Addresses the most difficult questions facing young adults.
Shriver, Maria
Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Went Out into the Real World, New York: Warner Books (2000)
Reflections, advice and hard-earned lessons from Shriver.
