Getting kids interested in finance is kind of like forcing them to eat their vegetables. It’s important, it’s productive, it’s healthy, but it’s boring. After your short, well-thought-out lecture about interest rates, they’ll run to their iPad and go back to playing games. So it’s time to bring finance to games.
Getting your family’s finances to fit within a set monthly budget is no easy task, but using personal finance tools like Mint.com is one of the easiest ways to get started. Instead of writing down and accounting for each transaction manually, the software automatically categorizes your transactions, sends you alerts, makes suggestions based on your [Read More]
Honey, you’ve had enough time on the iPad for now. Why don’t you go play for a little while? I recommended to my five year-old daughter.
But there’s nothing to do! She responded/complained predictably. And you’re on your phone, she added.
Ouch.
She was right. For all of the times I am telling her that she could be playing with [Read More]
My second grader had to do a report for school, her first substantive project she has had to do in the Age of Digital. Her work effort was to take the form of hand-drawn artwork on a poster board and, thanks to technology, a one minute video presentation.
She selected Babe Didrikson Zaharias, universally accepted as one of [Read More]
There has been so much put out in the world lately about how the future will look for our children, now growing up in the age of Instagram, Snapchat, YikYak, and Tinder.
These are all considered to be potentially dangerous apps, with concern weighing heavily on both safety and the repercussions of what having photos taken or rumors [Read More]
A crash came ringing down from the play room, one that clearly didn’t sound good. “What was that?” I shout up to my son. “I broke the Wii, Dad” was his response. You broke the Wii? I hop upstairs only to find a fresh, menacing spider web crack on the 47 inch flat screen TV. “Um, no son” I [Read More]
Before entering motherhood I had a preconceived notion of what was in store for me. According to my friends, parenthood was the most amazing thing one could ever experience, which is only partially true. Parenthood is quite rewarding, but it is also one of the most challenging tasks I have ever known.
When my first son was born I [Read More]
Before I was a mom, I thought I could control most everything in my life, and for the most part I did. I was the lead in the school play, the president of student council, and the girlfriend to the dreamy boy who sat in front of me in math. But “luck is the residue of design,” as [Read More]
I only have a handful of pictures from our family vacation last week. We escaped the “Snowmageddon” that dumped more than seventeen inches on the Northeast for what is now our annual trek to Florida in February. The weather was as close to perfect as we could have hoped for, the sunsets were spectacular, both of my children [Read More]
Remember Oregon Trail? Not the real one of Lewis and Clark fame that had actual historical value. I’m talking about the computer game that I played in sixth grade. Conceived in 1971, produced in 1974, and seemingly rolled out to every elementary school by 1984, Oregon Trail allowed me, as wagon leader, to guide my party of settlers from Independence, [Read More]
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