Financial Lessons
Week 47 — Choose Your Crowd
The people your kid spends the most time with are quietly becoming the person your kid is becoming. Not all at once — slowly, invisibly, without anyone announcing it.
Financial Lessons
Financial Lessons
Week 48 — The Few Expensive Mistakes
Most mistakes are tuition. They cost a little, teach a lot, and your kid should make plenty of them. But a handful of mistakes are a different category — they bill you for years. This week is about helping your kid see that aisle coming.
Financial Lessons
Week 49 — Taming the Need to Fit In
The desire to belong is one of the most powerful forces in a teenager's life — and the most expensive one, if you never name it.
Financial Lessons
Week 50 — The Gift of Giving
Generosity sounds like a moral lesson. It's actually one of the most practical money habits you can build into your kid.
Financial Lessons
Week 51 — Your Kid's First Five-Year Plan
A goal without a plan is just a daydream. This week you turn the whole year into something your kid can actually act on.
Financial Lessons
Week 52 — A Letter to Future You
You started this year with a question: who does your kid become? This week, you get to see how far you've already traveled.
Financial Lessons
Basics of Investing
The "boring" strategy that quietly beats almost everyone — and how $20 a month can become a small fortune.