Teach Your Kids How to Save, Spend and Share Wisely.
My new book! Teach a Kid to Save: A Fun, Hands-on Approach to Building Smart Money Habits. It explains how you can build a family money culture in just one hour each Saturday.
Teach a Kid to Save is your hands-on, research-based guide to teaching your kids about the wise use of money and work through an interactive mini-economy. In the mini-economy, kids have jobs, earn a play-money income, make a plan, shop at the household store, and even create their own businesses.
Why a mini-economy? It shows your kids — especially small kids — the whole economic process in just one hour each week. It includes goal-setting, work, budgeting, saving, and spending. That way the whole family is learning together. You tear down the barriers that making talking about money difficult. You demonstrate your family’s values. Kids learn not only how to work with money, but how money works.
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Hi, I’m Stephen
The world is big and complicated, but it’s full of opportunities. With the right tools, young people can confidently seize those opportunities. That’s why I don’t just teach how to work with money; I teach how money works.
I’ve written many peer-reviewed articles on how to teach economics and personal finance. I run a household mini-economy with my own four children, which is what my book is about. You can learn more at my blog, Paper Robots.
I teach economics at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Business, and I’m the director of the VCU Center for Economic Education. I work with the Virginia Council on Economic Education (VCEE) to do teacher training in economics and personal finance.
I love spending time with my family in Richmond, VA, playing soccer, skateboarding, and reading with a cup of good coffee.