Your Guide to Financially Intelligent Parenting
You send your kids messages about money all of the time through your words and actions. This may sound straightforward, but many parents are clueless about the money messages they are sending their kids. If you’re married, your spouse is also sending your kids money messages. Quite possibly these money messages conflict [...]
In Part One of this Article, we discussed your money story and introduced the concept of your money personality as it reveals itself in the dimensions of how you acquire money, how you manage money and how you use money. Let’s look at each area in more detail so that you can [...]
In the first two Parts of this Article, we’ve looked at money stories and money personalities. Now we want to examine two negative money messages that many of us send our children: money as taboo and money as cause of argument. Money as a taboo topic. Psychologists and financial writers love [...]
Financially intelligent parents present a unified front when dealing with money issues. This behavior takes a bit of work and practice, and we’ve found that a number of techniques facilitate integrating this behavior into your routine. Perhaps the first and best thing you and your spouse can do is to create [...]
“Helping families cope psychologically is essential for developing the refined financial intelligence most clients are seeking today.” –Eileen Gallo, Ph.D.
Eileen Gallo is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles, where she assists individuals and families with the psychological and [...]