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Your Parents’ Money Habits and You
by Sharon Lechter
Decisions you make today about how you spend and how you invest your money will affect you for years to come. Looking at how your [...]
Is it time to teach the kids in your life about money?
Do you ever feel like you have “ATM” tattooed across your forehead?
Do your kids (or Grandkids) think money grows on trees, and that you are the tree?
Do you even know how much money you actually give to your children? Even if you give your [...]
No single job hunting skill outranks knowing how to interview successfully. When pilots fly, they step through a rigorous preparation checklist before each take off. Apply the same procedure in landing a job. The choice between a job interview being a picture-perfect three-point touch-down and a gruesome crash-and-burn is totally up to you.
Use Your Head [...]
In cooperation with Secretary Geithner and Secretary Duncan, the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy is spreading the word and helping to enroll teachers and students in the National Financial Capability Challenge.
The National Financial Capability Challenge is a non-monetary awards program designed to increase the
financial knowledge and capability of high-school aged youth across the United [...]
What the Stuff Toy Review, a popular review site for all manner of toys for babies through teens, has given Thrive Time for Teens its highest rating of 5 stars.
The review states, “There may be no more important skill a parent can instill in their child than teaching them how to manage their money properly [...]
Watch the video here: ThriveTime on TV
Read more...Visit thrivetimegame.com for more information.
Read more...Pay Your Family First, Sharon’s youth and family company that empowers financial literacy through innovative and easy-to-understand programs that are applicable to real-world situations, will be featured on an upcoming episode of the Hallmark Channel.
The program will air on the Hallmark Channel on Tuesday, November 24th at 7:30am (6:30am CST), with support airings running on the [...]
Sharon recently appeared on a broadcast of This Week in America with Rick Bratton to discuss how to talk to kids about money in a language they can understand and the top money mistakes parents make with their kids.
The half hour long interview is something every parent should listen to and find helpful, no matter [...]
Think and Grow Rich: Three Feet from Gold received its first review this weekend, and found glowing praise from the Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Bulletin placed Three Feet from Gold on its Ten Books to Read to Improve Your Competitive Position list and called it “interesting and compelling. I encourage you to read the brief review.
Tomorrow Three [...]
