How to Invest Your Money Just Before Retirement
Investing before retirement is about revisiting your retirement goals and making sure your money is there when you need it. Those last few years before retirement should be some of ... Read more
3 Tools to Teach Your Kids Practical Money Skills
Learning practical money skills starts with giving your kids the tools and showing them how to use them. Financial education is full of concepts and ideas that will help you ... Read more
Why Investing is a Noun instead of a Verb
What you invest in is less important than your investment plan and how you use it to reach your life goals. Investing is more personal than most people realize. It’s ... Read more
3 Money Lessons My Parents Taught Me Growing Up
You don’t have to be perfect with your money to reach your money goals and financial freedom We’ve heard a lot of money lessons from the personal finance scholarship essays. ... Read more
Turning the American Dream into Financial Independence
One reader shares how to turn hard work of our parents’ generation into financial independence and prosperity We talk about financial independence as a destination but often overlook the journey ... Read more
The Powerful Lesson My Parents Taught Me about Spending
One reader shares how learning good spending habits can make even the smallest incomes go farther I’ve been an investment analyst and financial planner for more than a decade. I’ve ... Read more
5 Money Lessons My Mother Doesn’t Know She Taught Me
Your kids will learn about money and financial preparedness one way or the other Of the nearly 70 personal finance scholarship essays we’ve posted over the last two years, one ... Read more
The Money Lessons that Made Me Grow Up
How one reader’s parents helped her grow up financially with important money lessons Teaching kids about money and how to be financially responsible doesn’t have to come as a sit-down ... Read more
How Do Parents Teach about Money When They Weren’t Taught
Even parents that don’t teach their kids about money are teaching lessons without knowing it It’s difficult raising kids with good money habits. Kids need to be taught how to ... Read more
How to Be Proactive with Your Personal Finances
One reader shares how she learned to be proactive with her personal finance needs We talk a lot about saving and stretching a paycheck on the blog but hard work ... Read more