Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Teaching kids financial skills now sets them up for a lifetime of success

By Trent Edwards, Canwest News Service

Most of us heard it from our parents: "money doesn’t grow on trees," but was that where our financial education at home ended?

All too often, that's the case, according to Stacy DeBroff, a parenting author from Boston who recently wrote A Parent's Guide to Raising Fiscally Responsible Children (Simon & Schuster, $12).

Despite their good intentions, parents are setting their kids up for a life of financial failure by sheltering their children from hard financial realities.

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