Parents overwhelmingly believe they have a better shot at meeting E.T. than their kids have at striking it rich. That's partly because adults are such horrible role models, according to a new study. Here are five strategies for helping your kids gets get it, financially speaking.
When it comes to personal spending and saving habits, it’s all in the genes, a new study says. Is it true that we really can’t help ourselves?
There are also money lessons to be learned in this roundup from millionaires who hate fees as much (or more) than you and I, high-profile pawn shop owners who are wise enough to walk away rather than lose money on deals, and parents who rarely if ever splurge on purchases for their kids.
Parenting magazine paired up three financial advisors with three families that have serious financial troubles. They’ve all been blogging about the experience since October. There’s plenty of good advice to be gathered from the posts, but what’s most fascinating is that these stories are really real.
“Snack.” That’s the word that woke L.A. Times columnist Rosa Brooks up in a cold sweat recently. She’d remembered that she’d promised to supply her child’s class with snacks the next morning, an ordeal she recounts in a column this week titled, “Modern ‘parenting’ insanity: having kids today has turned into a full-time job and [...]
