personal finance

Five Tips to Teach Family Finances to Your Kids

April 19, 2011

It’s financial literacy month, and if there is one thing you should do this month, it’s work to educate your children about family finances. Personal finance skills are one of the best gifts you can give your children. T. Rowe Price recently announced the results of their third annual Parents, Kids, and Money Survey. Two-thirds [...]

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Video Thursday: The Great Piggybank Adventure

December 16, 2010

I’m hoping to launch a show next year on the Pulse Network, and so a few weeks ago, I put together a mock show. I was lucky enough to interview Stuart Ritter, a personal financial planner from T. Rowe Price who worked on the Great Piggybank Adventure at Walt Disney World. He offers great advise [...]

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Teaching Kids About Finance (and an Autographed Baseball Giveaway)

July 28, 2010

Those who know me know that I’m passionate about teaching kids about personal finance. I’m also a big Red Sox fan, so I was pleased to hear that one of my favorite players was teaming up with a local bank, Salem Five, to help educate kids about money. I don’t usually print press releases or [...]

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Three Jars for Helping Teach Kids About Money

June 16, 2010

You probably know that I am all about teaching kids about money. So, when I got a pitch for Three Jars, a company founded by a dad to help teach kids about personal finance, I was certainly interested in learning more. Teaching kids about personal finance can be extremely challenging, and any tool that helps [...]

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The Great Piggy Bank Adventure – a Collaboration between Disney and T.Rowe Price

October 12, 2009

As a mom, and as a finance professional, I feel that it’s essential for parents to instill good financial values in their children, as early as possible. The truth is, it isn’t easy to do, and of course, kids learn from your actions even more than they learn from your words. I struggle to find [...]

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