Everybody Loves Your Money

I wanted to follow up my post from the carnival of personal finance with more articles and some resources for teaching kids about money. Below you’ll find a few articles about how the tide seems to be slowly turning towards getting our kids prepared for their financial lives. The last link has lots of resources to take it the next step.

http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=14703
Ideas to make your kids money managers. This is a short article from Readers Digest that gives a couple of Robert Kiyosaki’s ideas for teaching kids how to be good with money.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/general/2005-03-24-mym_x.htm
Slowly but surely, it seems like we are starting to see an emphasis on educating our youth in high school and college.

New York Times article
Another article about getting a curriculum in schools to help kids prepare to manage their finances for the rest of their lives.

http://credit.about.com/od/teachingourkids/
Great resources for teaching your kids about money.

*Updated* — New link added:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BD9EABCCE%2D59A4%2D4E71%2DB414%2D7D6283F17D2F%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=
What can I say. Everybody loves your money. More profit for them, means more of your money in their pocket. Credit card spending is up, and AMEX has an increased number of customers. Glad it isn’t me.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/233883_boomers25.html
The first of the official baby boomers just became eligible to retire. Let all the worry about the economy begin now. My guess is that the majority of the boomers won’t retire yet due to their net worth.

http://www.freemoneyfinance.com
The Carnival of Personal Finance part 6 is up at Free Money Finance. Yours truly has one post up there. Check out all the interesting personal finance blog links up there today.

http://www.marketwatch.com
Should you choose your funds like you choose your cereal? Pretty good article about mutual fund investing.