With all the talk about raising financially responsible children, we are featuring this post from the archive. For years I’ve been looking for a fun way to teach basic money concepts to my kids. Granted, there’s Monopoly, a board game classic. In our house, it had become the go-to game for my 8 year-old, but […]
If you have ever wondered why women need a different approach to finances, take a look at the cumulative effects of our money issues as they are magnified in our aging population. There are 10,000 members of the Boomer generation turning 65 today and 10,000 more turning 65 every day for the next 20 years. So […]
In her book on finding greater life balance, The Sweet Spot, Dr. Christine Carter makes the startling suggestion to take more recesses, “It’s about learning how to increase our productivity at the same time we take more breaks and play a whole lot more.” Unless she also gives us the formula to extend the 24-hour […]
I had the privilege of knowing Dr. Christine Carter, the author of The Sweet Spot and Raising Happiness, during our teenage years. This means that I not only get to read her books and recognize the fact that she is still the same loud-laughing, full-of-life character she was in high school, but I also read her […]
My financial coaching work often reminds me of horseback riding and the overwhelming need for – and difficulty of – balancing. An overcorrection can land you on the ground with your face in manure. (Don’t ask me how I know that.) It’s not too difficult to balance when the horse is lumbering along, but if he […]
