How to Teach Your Children to Appreciate You
Synopsis: Parents often feel they are overworked and under-appreciated. Find out how to teach children to appreciate their parents' incredible effort of raising a family. “Only one hundred dollars?!” twelve-year-old Jason sneered at me. “What can a puny hundred dollars buy?!” I was teaching a basic finance class at an elementary school in New York City, and the topic of the day was how to convince bankers to lend the students one hundred dollars to start a...
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Synopsis: Financial history is full of boom and bust. To prevent the next financial crisis, we must teach our children about the basic of finance. Learn how to talk to kids about money in a fun and exciting way. In late 2009, I was at an investment conference where Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, was the keynote speaker. He appeared to be fit and confident. Who could blame him? His company seemed the only bank that had survived the recent financial holocaust. “My daughter in college...
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