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Pathfinder: Teaching Kids
Resources for Teaching Kids about Investing
It is very important to teach children about finances and money-management from an early age. This helps them develop fiscally healthy habits that they’ll use their entire lives. The earlier you can teach a child or teen about money, including earning, saving and spending money responsibility, the better prepared they will be to manage their own money.
The following resources are all available free online, or through SELCO libraries. Ask your local librarian if you have further research needs.
Subject Headings in the catalog
• Children – Finance, Personal
• Children -- Finance, Personal -- Juvenile literature.
• Investments -- Juvenile literature
• Money -- Juvenile literature
• Parents –Finance, Personal.
• Saving and investment -- Juvenile literature.
Books
Barbanel, Linda. Piggy Bank to Credit Card: Teach Your Child the Financial Facts of Life. New York: Crown Publishers, 1994.
Bateman, Katherine R. The Young Investor: Projects and Activities for Making Your Money Grow. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2001.
Bodnar, Janet. Raising Money Smart Kids: What They Need to Know About Money—and How to Tell Them. Chicago: Dearborn Trade Publishers, 2005.
Dungan, Nathan. Prodigal Sons and Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child's ATM. New York: Wiley, 2003.
• Godfrey, Joline. Raising Financially Fit Kids. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2003.
Godfrey, Neale S. & Carolina Edwards. Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Mayr, Diane. The Everything Kids’ Money Book: From Saving to Spending to Investing-- Learn All About Money! Holbrook, MA: Adams Media, 2000.
• Minden, Cecilia. Investing: Making Your Money Work for You. Ann Arbor: Cherry Lake Publishing, 2008.
• Shelly, Susan. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Money for Teens. New York: Alpha Books, 2001.
Websites
All Smart Investing links are available at http://www.delicious.com/smartinvesting
