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Kids and money

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:31:00 GMT

Now that tax time is over, I decided it was time to upgrade my aging version of Quicken. While I was on the Quicken web site, I saw that they have a new product out called Quicken Kids and Money.

I was tempted to demo it, but then noticed that it is geared for kids age 5 through 8, and my kids are well beyond that.

Anyway, after looking over the description, it didn’t seem like they were offering very much for the $69.99 per year they are charging for this product.

It seems that there is a lot of free information out there, such as The Mint, which will do basically the same thing.

Anyone have any experience with Quicken Kids and Money, let us know what you think.

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Kids and Money

Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:55:16 GMT

How do you teach kids about money? They certainly don’t learn anything about it in schools. And maybe that’s all for the better since it should be the parent’s responsibility. I recently gave a merit badge course for my son’s scout troop on financial management to a group of 13 and 14 year olds. Most of them knew nothing about managing money.

Getting Rich Slowly has some good thoughts and lots of link with more information. Read it here: How do you teach Kids the Value of Money.

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