Have you ever wondered when you should start teaching your children about finances? Many college kids today get themselves into so much financial trouble – student loans, credit card debt, car loan, etc, because they have never been taught how to be wise financial stewards. Those college graduates then come out with an average of [...]
Sending our kids to a Christian private school is something we’d love to do someday! Can we afford private school? Unfortunately, I would have to say the answer is no at this point in our lives. Certainly all tuitions differ in cost and it depends on the school and location. I recently checked into kindergarten [...]
As a father of two young children, setting an example of good financial stewardship and teaching them about money management is important to me. I believe children can start learning Biblical principles for managing money at an early age. They just need the proper guidance and tools to help them learn. So,for this month’s giveaway [...]
I’m currently writing a series called “What the Bible Says about Money.” The last post was about saving. To recap, I discussed the importance of saving for challenging times and how it’s foolish to spend all we have. This week I’m wrapping up the series with common Biblical principles about money and family. Have you [...]
In a recent post, Teaching Kids About Money, I wrote about how it’s the parents’ obligation to teach their kids. Personally, I think this can be quite an area of struggle for parents. I know as a father of two young children, I’m just trying to figure it all out each day and am learning [...]
Probably one of the greatest gifts anyone can ever receive is the responsibility of being a parent. Parents are responsible for coaching and guiding children through life. As you can probably recall, there are many uphill battles along the way to adult life. It doesn’t get any easier as an adult since the responsibilities increase. [...]
I graduated college and had the opportunity to go directly into graduate school to get a master’s degree, so my real world working and personal finance experience was delayed for a few more years. I look back at some of the decisions I made during and after graduate school and realize they didn’t actually help [...]
If you’re just joining, I’m writing a 5 article series entitled, Live Debt Free. This is the fourth article out of four in which I discuss the four reasons why our family is pursing the debt free goal (including our house). I plan to end the series with a fifth article that will include some practical tools to help in [...]
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Monday, September 6, 2010
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