Yes You Can! Raise Financially Aware Kids Author  Jack Jonathan Format  Hardcover, 263 pages ISBN  0962978833 Published  2002 Publisher  Andrews McMeel Publishing Price  $19.95

Audience: Adults with children (preschool through high school)

Setting: Individual or small group with strong facilitator

Scope: Practical tips for working with children at home and on the run to help them become financially responsible as they earn, share, save and spend, with application from preschool through high school. It takes your entire family on a step-by-step journey toward understanding money and the role it plays in our lives. A variety of age appropriate activities are provided throughout the book.

Purpose: To help parents teach children, in an engaging manner, financial values that will last a lifetime. 

Summary: From the time children are born, they need a CFP - Chief Financial Parent. As CFPs, we may not feel prepared to be our children’s major source of financial information. Yet children are quick to pick up on the cues of those who have significant influence in their lives. We want our children to have strong values, to be financially astute, and to be “successful” in ways that include living a balanced life, choosing work they like, earning a good living, and being generous and compassionate. Jack Jonathon provides an easy to read - practical to apply - guide to infusing value-based money discussions into your family life. He has taken the principles of child development and applied them to the basic financial concepts: money, budgeting, saving and gift giving. 

Contents:

1. The Story and History of Money: The Message is in the Medium
2. Money Values
3. The Allowance Experience
4. Money Ins and outs: Achieving Your Financial Goals
5. Putting Your Money to Work
6. Growing Money right: Investing
7. Smart Spending: Becoming a Wise Consumer
8. Donations and Volunteering
9. Smart Learning: How to Keep Getting the Financial Information You Need

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