Thoughts on Raising a Tennis Star
I just realized that title is really confusing. My oldest child isn't even two. (Not to mention that his parents admit to not being athletically gifted.) I'm referring to another article in the August...
View ArticleAsk the Readers: Best Place to Invest Around $1000?
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about whether I should invest my babies' money. I think the general consensus was that I should, especially because I'll personally make up for any losses. (Don't...
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Ask The Readers: Investing for Kids?
A little more than a year ago, I wrote an article about whether or not to invest our babies' money. The advice was overwhelming. Since they aren't going to use this money (mostly birthday cash from...
View ArticleKeeping the Opportunity Wedge Wide Open
Note: The month of March might be slow around here. I hoped to get ahead of some planned travel, but with four of the last six days derailed by kids’ snow days and their flu, it hasn’t happened. The...
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Starting Your Kids on a Financial Independence Path
Everyone is a product of where they focus their time and energy, right? As you can tell from this blog, much of my focus is on personal finance, especially financial independence. In my personal life,...
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McEconomics!
This article is from occasional contributor, Kosmo. At the end, I’ll tack on some of my own McDonalds economics thoughts. Several weeks ago, I was at McDonalds with my 9 year old. It blew his mind...
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Could You Save ~$100,000 by Age 18? She did!
I often read a lot of financial articles and think, “I should write about this.” About 10% of the time, I actually do. The rest of the time… well that’s how I earn my nickname. One of those stories...
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These Millionaires Made Their 7-Year-Old Buy His Own School Lunch
This is the first edition of Kid’s Corner. I hope to do use one or two Fridays a month to write about issues of money and kids. That’s probably the worst headline I’ve ever written. It’s terrible. What...
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How I Homeschooled Our First Graders During the COVID-19 “Vacation”
This is the spreadsheet of ideas that we used. Create your own and share it with me in the comments please! I took a little creative liberty with the title. The “COVID-19 ‘Vacation'” refers to the two...
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Distance Learning Doesn’t Work
Well, distance learning may work for some families, but from everyone I’ve talked to distance learning simply doesn’t work. Our family is no exception. Editor’s Note: This article has a little less...
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Investing in My Kids’ Roth IRA (2020 Edition)
How did everyone enjoy Amazon Prime Day? I feel pretty exhausted surfing through all the deals and then updating that article to share the deals with you. If you didn’t buy anything, congrats on...
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How To Give Your Child An Allowance
How to give your child an allowance? That’s easy, you just hand them money, right? While the physical act of giving an allowance is easy, there’s more that you may want to think about. Should you Give...
View ArticleHow To Teach Kids About the Stock Market?
I’m going to go with a quick post today. I’ve been working on the last update of 2020, but this question came up and gave me some pause. We’ll push that update to Wednesday. For the last five years, I...
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Doubling the Kids’ Money with Robinhood
This is going to be another short article today. I am still swamped with dog sitting business. I love that so many people are getting vaccinated and traveling. I also love that almost everyone decided...
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MoneyTime Review: Teach Your Kids Personal Finance
MoneyTime – Personal Finance for Kids MoneyTime is having a flash sale that ends in 2-3 days. It’s 25% off an annual account. I’m just reviewing how much we spent for summer camp on the kids. I think...
View ArticleKids’ Camp Conundrum
(I love alliteration.) You may have noticed that my posting schedule has slowed down recently. Some of it is due to vacations. We’ve had two in the last two months. Some of it is due to the vast number...
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Maximizing Your Long-Term Investments
[My alternative title for this article could be, “My Kids Roth IRAs’ Asset Allocation.” However, you don’t have to have a kid Roth IRA or a kid to take advantage of some of the ideas here.] I’ve...
View ArticleHow to Teach Your Teen Investing
They say that best writers steal ideas from others and make them their own. I’m not sure about stealing, but I have to admit that my ideas come from the input of others. That can be from books,...
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Seven Ways To Teach Your Kids About Money
I am passionate about several things, but two of them are teaching kids and money. Teaching kids comes with the territory of being a stay-at-home dad. I couldn’t have gotten through 15 years of money...
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Set Your Kid on FIRE
There are lot of good things you can do with the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) acronym, but that title is certainly not one of them. Of course, I mean set your kid on the path to FIRE....
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