Raise awesome kids without breaking the bank or losing your sanity. Find frugal fun activities, strategies to afford college, and tips to navigate this crazy ride called motherhood.
Whether college for your child starts this year or in 5 years, the prospect of pushing them out of the nest is a scary one. Are they prepared for all they will face? Have you taught them enough to be self-reliant or will they be calling home with questions every 2 hours? To help you …
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Many higher income parents aim to fund their child’s college education in full so their child doesn’t need to worry about loans upon graduation or working while in school. They want their kids to focus on the expensive education being provided for them. A noble goal, but is it helping or hurting their kids? There …
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Game nights with family and friends are amazing. Besides being a low-cost and fun bonding activity, board games can teach kids communication skills, problem-solving, and healthy competition. Plus, kids love games, especially the opportunity to beat their parents, and take them seriously! But could your game nights be teaching your children financial literacy skills …
There is a great debate among parents around when you should start talking to your kids about money. Some parents believe that introducing concepts of money to children places too much strain and too much adult anxiety on their kids. These parents want to wait as long as possible to talk to their kids about …
When I think back to my childhood summers, I remember pool parties, watermelon on the deck, and trips to the Connecticut Shore and Cape Cod. But while summers were a time for fun and family, they were also a time for work. Many of my most discussed and most defining memories center around my first …
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Kids are expensive. We hear it everywhere. But looking back at a year of expenses for our first child, my husband and I know that we made things way more expensive than they really had to be. The cost of a baby really doesn’t have to be that high, but we lost track of our …
How We Spent Almost $13,000 on Our Son in His First Year Read More »
Sign up for FamZoo with this link before December 31, using the code HOLIDAY17, for an extra free month! It is the rare parent that doesn’t hope their kids grow up to be smart money managers. We don’t want our children to face the stress of enormous debt or the pressure of living paycheck to paycheck. …
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