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Of Slugs and Budgets – Guest Blog
Written by...Karyn Hodgens, author of Raised for Richness (Note from Elisabeth: thought maybe you didn't get enough of the gardening metaphor from last week's Financial Gardening article!) When my oldest son, Nathan, was four years old, I caught him crying silently in...
Financial Gardening: Learning to Thin
I have the opportunity quite often to teach or talk to teens and one of the things I love talking to them about is the idea of designing their lives. Now I know that sometimes things just happen that don't seem to be part of our design at first, yet if you really look...
Austin Webster for President! You gotta love this young man.
A great friend of mine emailed me a link to this amazing speech on Capitalism and it was so inspiring, I had to post it for you to see. If this doesn't inspire YOU to be YOUR best...Go Austin!
Basic Financial Principles All Children Need
Many people want to know what kids and teens learn in our Camp Millionaire summer or weekend workshops. To give you a basic overview of just some of what the kids learn, we've enclosed the basic Money Game Principles we cover in the weekend program. These are also the...
Supply and Demand Activity Lesson
Supply and demand is as basic an economic lesson as it gets when you’re talking about teaching kids and teens about money.
In this incredibly fun and active financial education lesson, you’re going to play Musical Chairs in a while new way with a great debrief at the end to the concepts behind supply and demand home.
Teaching kids about interest
Here's a great article entitled, "5 lessons to teach kids how interest works" written by Tamara E. Holmes: http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/five-credit-lessons-teach-kids-how-iinterest-works-1267.php To subscribe to this blog, just click here. Once or twice...
Happy Bunny Day
Just wanted to drop in and wish everyone a Very Happy Easter. Elisabeth
Nothing Teaches Money Like Money…Real or Play
It seems, these days, that companies and nonprofit organizations are more focused on taking curriculums and lessons online...including the much needed financial literacy curriculums we're all convinced need to be incorporated into every school program. Maybe it makes...
The Key To Living Within Your Means
The key? Stop thinking you have a means at all! When it comes to learning to be financially secure (as if there really is such a thing), we constantly read that we must learn to live within our means. Talk about a scarcity mindset. I just returned from a one-day...
Get Your Own Chicken! A Story About Financial Responsibility.
Today's blog was written for you by one of our very first Camp Millionaire Coaches, Patricia Davis. Enjoy... As I travel the country teaching financial seminars, I often am reminded of my Mother, Mimi, who was the very first person who taught me the rules of the game...
The Money Cow Game Activity Lesson
Everyone loves stuffed animals and this activity is centered around a little stuffed cow...you can even call it the Cash Cow if you want, though ours is named Betsy! (We received her as a gift long ago in one of our Camp Millionaire programs from a young girl who...
Children Need More To Do!
For years, I have listened to adults who say, "Kids just don't have anything do to. They need youth-based centers where they can go and do things." Though I agree it's great when kids and teens who need it have a safe place to go, I believe one of the main reasons we...
The Seven Habits of Highly Unsuccessful Spenders
Today's Guest Blog is by Ted McLyman, the author of Money Makes Me Crazy. He has some great insight into why this green stuff we use seems so, well, hard to keep track of and just plain hard to keep in our pockets, let alone our bank accounts. I found it a delightful...
The Value of a Working Vacation
Today, Feb. 24, 2011, is the final article I will write from Tortola Island in the BVI (British Virgin Islands). I have spent six lovely weeks working, playing and learning about lots of things. Things I've learned about Tortola and the British Virgin Islands: The...
Financial Literacy: We Need A Paradigm Shift
Financial Literacy - The Old Paradigm Many years ago, most parents felt that the only way their adult children would succeed in life was to go to college, get good grades, graduate and get a good steady, secure job. This approach doesn't work very well, however, for a...
How A Financial Education Program Can Help You Achieve Financial Independence
Author: Indra Arman Every day we are learning that individual debt is growing at an astronomical rate and people spend far more than they earn. Foreclosures, bankruptcies and consumer delinquency have reached an all time high. A major part of the problem has stemmed...
Retirement and Retardment: Through A Third Grader’s Eyes
Written by a third grader, on what his grandparents do. After Christmas , a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holiday away from school. One child wrote the following: We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live...
The Arbitrary Classification of Rich and Poor: A Great Story for All
Arbitrary Financial Rules of Life: The Cause of Most Suffering Human beings have a tendency to create arbitrary rules, judgments, classifications, meanings and hence, emotions about the 'stuff' of our lives. I've heard it said more than once that we're Meaning Making...
Assets and Liabilities Activity Lesson
Helping people distinguish between an Asset and a Liability helps them know what to do with their hard earned cash. Since human beings are so good at Spending their money but terrible about Investing their money in assets, teaching your participants the simple rule to...
Camp Millionaire History with Elisabeth Donati
I recently did a written interview for a new financial education website. The following is a copy of that interview. I thought perhaps people who didn't know how Camp Millionaire got started might enjoy it. 1. When did you start the Creative Wealth website and why?...
History lesson: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Most of us have been asked, at some point in our lives, "What do you want to do, or who do you want to be, when you grow up?" Innocent enough question, right? Surprising as it might be, this one question can put pressure on a child that will plague him the rest of his...
Great Testimonial (and new ideas) from Anita in New Zealand
"Just wanted to say we had HEAPS of FUN playing the Money Game. Because it was my first time, and I wanted to be sure all the kids 'won' - I opted for the short version where they received $200 for each asset they owned. I chose to make the kids 'work' for me at the...
How a stimulus package works!
Someone sent this to me the other day and I couldn't help but post it here for you. We all wonder about the 'stimulus' packages that the government puts into place. Ever wondered how they really work? Here you go: It is a slow day in the small Saskatchewan town of...
Money Saving Tips for Teens
Whether you get a regular allowance, have a part-time job, or your parents give you money whenever you ask, you've no doubt figured out by now that if you spend that money impulsively, you often find your wallet or purse empty when you really need or want something....
10-24-7: The Combination to a Life of Possibility
One of my pet peeve's with most of our current education system (and there are many), is that we make the world's future population learn, aka memorize, a whole lot of facts and figures but we so rarely teach them how to accomplish anything in life. What difference...
Being Positive in Negative Environment
Negative Economic Environment, that is. So many people are struggling these days. They have either lost their jobs and can't find another one, having to take work that doesn't pay well enough or their own business is down. The thing is, with the advent of the...
Change: What If Everything You Wanted Only Took One Thing To Get It?
Making Change Happen Since somehow the New Year got to be about change, I thought I'd chime in with my ten cents worth (inflation...advice has gotten more expensive but still only worth what it means to you:-). Almost every human being alive has something he or she...
Financial Principle Contest – Learning The Rules To The Money Game!
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Celebration…A Powerful Key To Learning and Remembering Information
When was the last time you celebrated learning something? For some, celebrating comes easy but for most human beings, celebrating is attached to accomplishing something monumental. But think about the last time you watched, or glanced at, a football game. Those guys...
Goal Setting: First Of The Year Madness
Human beings have learned, through school and the media, that January is a great time to set goals for the coming year. We do this without even thinking about our lives long-term. This year, consider doing goal setting differently.
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