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Cultivating money lessons from the candy bowl

November 10, 2021 by admin

There was a lot of “bad-decision making” at my house this Halloween, and it wasn’t about eating too much candy. Instead, it was the way the children in my neighborhood responded to my annual effort to turn All Hallows Eve into a lesson about money. Each year, it’s a fun evening filled by conversations with …

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Childhood money lessons can start with ‘Cash or candy?’

October 19, 2021 by admin

   Americans have a complicated relationship with money, much of it stemming from what we learned (or didn’t) as children.    In most households, money is a subject every bit as taboo as sex, which is why more than half of Americans reported in a recent study that either no one taught them about money …

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Try a Covid-safe, fun-with-money approach to Halloween

September 30, 2020 by admin

Many traditions have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic this year, but my hope throughout the summer has been that Halloween might be spared. Since 2016 at my house, instead of “Trick or treat?” the question has been “Cash or Candy?” It’s become a fun, fabulous and favorite personal tradition, where I help neighborhood kids …

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Kids like and learn more from cash than Halloween candy

May 24, 2020 by admin

Note: This article was released to newspapers on Nov. 1, 2019   Liam, an eager, blond-haired third-grader, wasn’t playing the odds. He didn’t care about losing five pieces of candy; he couldn’t pull them from his bag fast enough. “You’ve got to go for the big money,” he excitedly told his friends as he shoved …

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For a real Halloween treat, try ‘cash or candy’

October 2, 2019 by admin

I know one thing that kids like more than candy for Halloween. Cash. For the last three years, I have answered the cry of “Trick or treat?” with a very different question: “Cash or candy?” It’s my effort to change the game on All Hallows Eve, to nurture the children not with nougat and caramel …

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