This week I launched my new children’s book, The Lemonade Stand, and it’s been a very busy but fulfilling week. These books are an easy and fun way for parents to start money conversations with their kids. It’s been a real thrill (and ego booster!) to read your wonderful reviews and most importantly — to hear how people are breaking the money taboo cycle and teaching their kids about money.
I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Dino from Money Matters with Dino to talk about my favorite topic — kids and money. While kids and money go together like peanut butter and jelly in my mind, I know it’s not an automatic combination for most parents and that’s a mindset I want to change. We had a fantastic conversation, although his daughter might not be my biggest fan (listen in and you’ll find out why). Tune in to Money Matters With Dino this Sunday, July 20 at 7AM Pacific on the Patriot KEIB AM 1150 to hear Dino and I discuss how to raise financially responsible kids. And don’t worry if you can’t listen live or don’t live in the LA area as there will be recording posted later.
Here are my favorite posts from the past week. Enjoy!
Glen from How to Save Money had a great guest post on the Lessons My Parents Didn’t Teach Me about Money at Eyes on the Dollar. His parents taught him many important things, but there were a few money lessons they missed, such as budgeting and being entrepreneurial, that he plans to teach his young son.
Michelle from Fit Is the New Poor shared Teach Your Children Young: 10 Money Saving Skills. This includes some important life skills, like properly doing laundry, meal planning and basic home repairs. All great skillets that help you keep more of your hard-earned money to use on things that really matter to you.
Grayson from Debt RoundUp had an excellent post on It’s All in Your Head: Your Scarcity Mindset is Keeping You Poor. I run into the scarcity mindset quite a bit and how you look at things definitely affects your reality. Grayson has some great tips to help you move to an abundant mindset.
This may be a little self-serving, but I have to share the The Lemonade Stand review from Shannon at Financially Blonde. Well, more specifically her 8-year-old son’s handwritten review. Will loved the book, even though he was a bit disappointed the boys were bad savers since his Mom taught him to be such a good saver! 🙂
And finally, my good friend, Hayley from Disease Called Debt is doing a great job eliminating her debt and has written an e-book to help other people who are ready to say good-bye to their debt. For a limited time (July 16-20) you can download Achieving Debt Freedom for free! I’ve downloaded my copy and can’t wait to start reading it.
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Good luck and happy reading!
SHANNON RYAN, CFP®
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