by Angie Smith | Jun 12, 2017 | Education
Teaching Your Children about Financial Literacy (A Three Part Series) Part 3: Teens…The Final Frontier The teen years can be a tricky time: as our children are trying to spread their wings and want their independence, parents still have important things to...
by Angie Smith | Jun 8, 2017 | Education
Teaching Your Children about Financial Literacy (A Three Part Series) Part 2: They are Off to School, but Your Job Continues When we send our children off to kindergarten, many parents feel that their role as their child’s teacher has ended. As they walk into...
by Angie Smith | Jun 5, 2017 | Education
Teaching Your Children about Financial Literacy (A Three Part Series) Part 1: The Earlier You Can Start, the Better! According to Wikipedia, financial literacy is the ability to understand how money works in the world: how someone manages to earn or make it,...
by Angie Smith | Jun 1, 2017 | Education
Developing Literacy Skills from an Early Age Is it ever too early to begin teaching literacy skills to your child? Research would say that it is not. Parents of infants and toddlers are in an excellent position to begin cultivating a love of learning in...
by Angie Smith | May 29, 2017 | Education
Encouraging Literacy for Teenagers As children grow and become teenagers, we assume that since they have already learned how to read, as parents, our job in encouraging their literacy skills is complete. We take for granted that the schools have done their...
by Angie Smith | May 25, 2017 | Education
1000 Books before Kindergarten There is no doubt that in today’s world; most of us are often running at a breakneck pace. As parents, we are busy working, trying to run a household, and keeping up with social and volunteer obligations. For many of us, it is...