Children and money
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Are Gift Cards Wise Presents for Kids? 
Author: O'Neil-Haight, Megan (2 more by this author)
Description: This web article discuss the pros and cons of giving gift cards to children. Contains questions that should be asked before buying children gift cards.
College Students' Knowledge and Use of Credit
Description: The findings suggest that credit education may be needed before students enter college (or shortly thereafter) to help them make informed decisions and avoid having excessive debt affect current/future financial security.
Happy Holiday Season Depends on Family Financial Planning
Description: This resource provides ideas on how to reduce the risk of holiday gift disappointment as well as the risk of overwhelming bills.
Helping Young Children Through Stressful Times
Description: Recognizing that stress exists and ensuring that your children’s basic needs are met helps them be more resilient when stress occurs in their lives. Rather than trying to shield your children from all stress, provide them with basic coping skills and resources to prepare for the future challenges of life.
Author: Gilbert, Barbara
Description: This article provides information on teaching children about money and activities can be used to teach according to child age groups.
Purdue Expert: Nice Holiday Gifts for Kids Don't Require Big Spending
Description: This news article shares suggestions from Judith Myers-Walls, Purdue University, on giving inexpensive gifts, less expensive toys, shopping for used items, making your own toys and giving certificates for activities with the family.
Secrets of Parenting 4, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on children and money. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Talking to Children about Tough Times
Author: Brotherson, Sean
Description: Many families are faced with financial concerns that are causing changes in how the family lives. Some families are facing unemployment or job layoffs, some are caught in the middle of the business downsizing trend, others were dealt a disaster due to weather-related problems that reduced their income, and still others are faced with the possibility of losing their business, farm and/or home. Making changes isn't easy for adults or for children. People become used to a certain lifestyle or quality of life and rarely think about the potential for it to end. It's human nature to resist and fear changes that approach when income is reduced or lifestyle or location must change. Adults often try to keep these difficulties from children, hoping that they either won't really notice or that they will not be bothered or affected by it. The adults become so absorbed in the difficulties that they forget the rest of the family might be in pain also. As an adult, it just seems to be the natural thing to do.
Talking to Your Kids About Money
Author: Sasser, Diane (5 more by this author)
Description: Teaching children about money helps them to understand the financial changes the family is going through. It also teaches them the benefits of good money habits. Follow these guidelines on how to approach the topic of money with children.
Description: This article discusses how to teach children about money, including teaching about allowance, budgeting, and different aspects about finances such as savings and credit.
What to Teach your Children about Money
Description: This article provides some of the attitudes and values that children need to be taught to become more successful and money-wise adults.
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Description: This website provides articles and activities relating to the financial crisis.
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Food Insecurity and Children Living in Immigrant Families: Implications for Growth and Development
Author: Greder, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: Many families today are experiencing a daily struggle to provide food for their children. This is particularly true for families living in poverty and families who have immigrated to the United States. Food security is especially important for children because their nutrition impacts not only their current health, but also their future health and well-being. This online Workshop explores the impact of food insecurity on children living in immigrant families. Kimberly Greder, Extension Family Life Specialist and Associate Professor at Iowa State University, talks about her experience working with families living in poverty, and her research on the health and well-being of Latino immigrant families, particularly in rural communities.
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A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: I Need to Get a Job
Description: This fact sheet helps parents of teenagers examine the positive and negative consequences of having a job while in high school.
Description: This site contains information on financial planning, teens and money, as well as other aspects of children and money.
Author: Turner, Josephine (2 more by this author)
Description: This focus of this article is to teach children the value of money. Topics discussed include: how much allowance, how to teach a child the value of money, and the pressures of advertising on young people.
Children and Money Mini-Lesson
Description: This mini-lesson includes learning objectives, background information, discussion questions, an activity and sources of additional information on understanding the importance of money management skills for children, learning age-appropriate ways to develop financial awareness and skills and using allowances to help children practice financial responsibility.
High School Financial Planning Program (HSFPP)
Description: This online financial education program, aimed at high school age youth, focuses on how to handle and manage money through practical “core competencies” on how to create a financial plan, budget, saving and investing, personal insurance, career and lifestyle issues from a financial impact point of view.
How Can I Teach My Preschooler about Using Money to Buy Something?
Description: This fact sheet describes simple activities to help parents teach their children how money works and what it can do, talk with their children about how the family uses money, and help parents model good money management.
How Can I Teach My Preschooler that Gifts Do Not Have to Cost Money?
Description: This fact sheet describes simple activities to help parents teach their children how money works and what it can do, talk with their children about how the family uses money, and help parents model good money management.
How Can I Teach My Preschooler that When Money is Spent, It is Gone?
Description: This fact sheet describes simple activities to help parents teach their children how money works and what it can do, talk with their children about how the family uses money, and help parents model good money management.
How Can I Teach My Preschooler to Help with the Shopping?
Description: This fact sheet describes simple activities to help parents teach their children how money works and what it can do, talk with their children about how the family uses money, and help parents model good money management.
How Can I Teach My Preschooler to Not Lose Money?
Description: This fact sheet describes simple activities to help parents teach their children how money works and what it can do, talk with their children about how the family uses money, and help parents model good money management.
How Can I Teach My Preschooler to that Having Fun Does Not Have to Cost Money?
Description: This fact sheet describes simple activities to help parents teach their children how money works and what it can do, talk with their children about how the family uses money, and help parents model good money management.
How Can I Teach My Preschooler to Wait to Spend Money?
Description: This fact sheet describes simple activities to help parents teach their children how money works and what it can do, talk with their children about how the family uses money, and help parents model good money management.
Description: Jump$tart is a national coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the financial literacy of kindergarten through college-age youth by providing advocacy, research, standards and educational resources. Jump$tart strives to prepare youth for life-long successful financial decision-making.
Author: Gilbert, Barbara
Description: This article provides information on teaching children about money and activities can be used to teach according to child age groups.
Description: This site is a quiz about children and money which can be used as an opportunity for you to learn how to teach your kids about money.
Money Wise: Helping Children Learn to Manage Money
Author: Walker, Doris
Description: This publication is intended to help children develop the ability to manage money. This approach emphasizes the role of an allowance as a share of the family income and as a way to help children learn the cost of various items in order to make decisions about spending, saving and sharing.
Description: The National Center for Youth Law works to ensure that low-income children have the resources, support, and opportunities they need for a healthy and productive future.
Necesito Trabajar (I Need to Get a Job)
Description: This fact sheet helps parents of teenagers examine the positive and negative consequences of having a job while in high school.
Secrets of Parenting 4, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on children and money. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Description: This site can help your children chart their financial course in life and teach them basic money management skills and their future will be brighter.
Description: This article discusses how to teach children about money, including teaching about allowance, budgeting, and different aspects about finances such as savings and credit.
Teaching Children Money Habits for Life
Author: Danes, Sharon (20 more by this author)
Description: This publication provides general background and outlines by age group and stage of development children's understanding and use of money as well as conflicts about money. It also identifies activities you can use to teach your child about money. Some resources are free and some are available for a small fee.
Telling the Kids: We Need to Spend Less!
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to explain to children that you need to spend less money.
Thrive by Five (TM): Teaching Your Preschooler About Spending and Saving
Description: Thrive by Five (TM): Teaching Your Preschooler About Spending and Saving--free activities and other resources for parents who want to encourage healthy attitudes about money in young children.
What to Teach your Children about Money
Description: This article provides some of the attitudes and values that children need to be taught to become more successful and money-wise adults.
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Over Half of Low-Income Children Live With a Parent Who Works Regularly
Description: This article provides information on low-income working families, background on the barriers parents face to provide for their families, state-by-state rankings, and resources for helping working families
Over Half of Low-Income Children Live With a Parent Who Works Regularly
Description: This article provides information on low-income working families, background on the barriers parents face to provide for their families, state-by-state rankings, and resources for helping working families
So, You Want To Move Out?!-An Awareness Program of the Real Costs of Moving Away From Home
Description: The So, You Want To Move Out?! program was developed to help teens explore the financial realities of moving away from home. Based on the evaluation, participants gained at least a basic knowledge of the concept of living within their means. The goal of the program is to increase youth financial literacy.