Piggy Banking: Preparing your Financial Life for Kids and Your Kids for Financial Life

Piggy Banking: Preparing your Financial Life for Kids and Your Kids for Financial Life


Author: Jeff D Opdyke


This is the book for those who want to prepare for the financial demands of having children. It also helps parents teach their children about financial responsibility and successful money-management habits.


The author also covers households that want either mother or father to stay at home and advises on how to make a one-income lifestyle work.


The content of the book is split into seven categories:

1. Preparing: Can You Afford Kids?
2. Earning:    Making Money Is the Foundation of Every Financial Life
3. Spending: You Earned It, So Enjoy It
4. Saving:     Laying the Cornerstone of Financial Security
5. Investing: Teaching Kids to Put Their Money to Work
6. Giving:     A Charitable Heart Starts Young
7. Learning:  Saving for the Diploma 

With this book in hand, parents will be equipped to create financial foundation for the family and successful financial life for their kids.

Interview

The author, Jeff Opdyke talks with Tess Vigelan on how to teach kids about money:

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/16/mm-preparing-financially-for-kids/