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eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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The secret to your childrens’ future financial is to give them a savings mentality early in life.
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A S.M.A.R.T. guide to give your children a good financial grounding for a post-COVID world.
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There are better ways to teach financial literacy than through school banking schemes.
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Around a fifth of 15-year-olds in Australia do not have basic financial literacy.
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The government has heavily invested in commercial initiatives intended to help children understand finance. But should this be taught by school teachers instead who are sensitive to kid's backgrounds?
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When Robyn Pearce's teenage grandson moved in two years ago, he got the financial shock of his life. - New Zealand Herald
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Parents should view this new period in their lives as a time to re-evaluate their financial plans, financial advisers say.
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heir twenties and thirties but it's a reality they have been happy to adjust to.
Their five-bedroom house which they built in the North Shore suburb of Hillcrest 35 years ago is still fully occupied.
Downstairs, daughter Anita Cheng, 30, and her husband Jonathan live in what used to be a rumpus room. Anita's brother Alastair, 28, lives in the other downstairs room on the other side of the stairs.
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They have fled the nest but are still being spoon-fed. And it's not helping them.
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These three ideas about the value of money go down as easily as freshly squeezed lemonade on a hot summer day.
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Healthy financial habits can be taught young and should last a lifetime.
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Long running game lets first-timers become familiar with the basics of investing in the sharemarket.
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The problem, of course, comes in giving players enough game that they don’t feel they’ve been tricked by the promise of a free offer – while at the same time encouraging enthusiastic fans of a game to translate that passion into payment. Across the industry, it’s generally considered poor practice to start demanding payments before a user has begun actually playing the game – or to make micropayment requests in games directed at small children, which has led to lawsuits.
Just one example of the Micropayments model that we are seeing increase in the app store. Remember to talk about these models with your children so you don't get some unexpected debts!
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With 46 states signed on for the new Common Core academic standards in 2014, the Federal government is bidding to make personal finance instruction an embedded part of Math and English. Treasury will unveil an online teachers tool this spring.
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PARENTS face new fees for internet access at government schools from next year, principals have warned.
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If you're coming to the end of the year with an ailing bank balance, now is the time to take steps to improve your financial situation, advisers say.
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A very good way to save for children's education is close to home. Not all parents have a mortgage, but for those who do, the strategy is to make extra repayments and redraw the money when school fees are needed.
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College is expensive, but don't forget about these additional expenses that add up fast.
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Want to teach your children about money? Start by including them in some of your financial decision-making.
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Financial empowerment coach Linda Fitzhardinge says parents should never sacrifice their own retirement so their children can graduate debt-free.
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A child occasionally blowing a week's worth of allowance on ringtones or a month's worth on designer jeans may seem like a harmless rite of passage. If the child is really young, you might even think...