Ask any parent and they’ll likely agree that it’s not so easy teaching teens about financial literacy (surveys have even reported that many ‘rents are more comfortable having the sex talk – really). With endless homework, after-school activities and hours …
The following article by ShareBuilder president Dan Greenshields was originally published on Reuters.com on August 31, 2011. Parents everywhere are preparing to send their kids back to school. It’s time for new backpacks, lunchboxes, pens, pencils, clothes and electronics. Back-to-school season …
When ING DIRECT launched in 2000, our goal was to help Americans save their money. Eleven years later, we’re still marching forward, motivated by that same goal. But we’ve tasked ourselves with another challenge, too: What if we could raise …
The other day my husband and I got in a major disagreement…over a pair of sneakers. These weren’t just any old sneakers. They were $69 kicks—in a size 1. As in, sized to fit a 7-year-old girl. The argument went …
There’s a surge in products and tools designed to get kids active in saving. We think this is a very good thing. What would America look like if every child had a savings account, and experienced firsthand the power of …
Saving is as valuable a lesson as anything else we learned in grade school: Be kind. Work hard. Don’t chew with your mouth open. Save. We think it’s important for kids to experience for themselves the fun of saving—that’s why …
Chances are you have different sets of Do’s and Don’ts which have been dictated by the media, your friends, work, and of course your moral compass. Whether it’s fashion (white after Labor Day?), or how you play your golf game …
Would your teen (or tween) do a good job imitating how you save? Or, eek, how you spend? We have a few tips that could help make any form of financial imitation, within reason, more flattering. Cut the purse strings. …
