Are We Chasing Carrots?: Recognizing Our Mimetic Desires
We’re unkind to our future selves because we often aim for extrinsically motivated goals. In other words, we’re chasing carrots only to discover we don’t like them.
No Single Point of Failure: Optimizing the Three Major Financial Socialization Systems
Lion Air Flight 610 took off on a calm October morning in Indonesia. Neither the captain nor the crew knew the plane was carrying a faulty outside sensor. Data from …
Help Your Kids Avoid the “Envelope Surprise”
When Sarah opened her envelope, she read the following: 1-7-5-0-0-0 Six numbers later, her life had changed. These were not winning lottery numbers. Far from it. This was Sarah’s debt …
You Don’t Need a Budget: How Paying Yourself First and Reviewing Your Spending Might Be Better Approaches
Financial experts often tell us we need to budget, yet many of us don’t. Is there room for a different approach for us and for our kids?
AOA 049: The Hybrid Allowance System – With Guest Kennedy Reynolds
Acorns education champion Kennedy Reynolds offers strategies for navigating a hybrid allowance system.
AOA 048: Family Values and Money Conversations – With Guest Robin Taub
Returning guest Robin Taub offers parents strategies for incorporating family values into the money conversations they’re having with their kids.
We’re All Born Stupid Investors
We all have many biases, especially when it comes to investing. So whether we’re dabbling or diving into the stock market, we must learn how these biases cloud our thinking and, through personal experience, discover how active we are willing to be with our investments.
Raising Money-Smart Kids: We Want to See the Forest
We are on a journey to money empowerment with our kids. Every journey has its challenges, and we often wander on and off the path.
AOA 046: Empowering Kids Financially by “Saving to Invest” – With Guest Gayle Reaume
Mom and Moolah U founder Gayle Reaume discusses how parents can empower their kids with money.
AOA 045: Consistency Is Essential When Raising Money-Smart Kids – With Guest Courtney Moran
Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation Executive Director Courtney Moran discusses the importance of consistency when teaching money smarts in credit unions, families and schools.