Category Archives: Kids and Money

my thoughts on rais­ing financially-responsible kids

A Son’s Epiphany and A Mother’s Lesson

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 15, 2008
photo credit: Ti H²O The Son had a finan­cial epiphany recently.  As silly as it might seem, it was one of the proud­est and most grat­i­fy­ing expe­ri­ences of my moth­er­ing career so far — akin to watch­ing him take his first step or learn to read. The Son is 14.  He has gen­er­ally shown very lit­tle inter­est [...]
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Suze Orman on Oprah Today: Kids & Money

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 22, 2008
Let me begin by say­ing that I know very lit­tle about Suze Orman.  I’m not famil­iar with her over­all fis­cal phi­los­o­phy, her back­ground, etc.  In fact, before today, every­thing I knew about Suze Orman I learned in a recent SNL skit. So I watched today’s show with no pre­con­ceived notions. In gen­eral, I agreed with most of [...]
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WaMu/Chase Dropping Their Interest Rate

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 8, 2008
I just learned from Flexo at Con­sumerism Com­men­tary who learned from Five Cent Nickel who heard from a reader, William, that Wash­ing­ton Mutual is drop­ping the inter­est rate for their on-line sav­ings accounts. It’s true.  I imme­di­ately logged into my WaMu account and checked.  Sure enough both my account and The Daughter’s shows an APY of [...]
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The Daughter asked about our Family’s Financial Health

By Suburban Wife | Published: September 29, 2008
I took a vaca­tion from the news today; didn’t know about the stock mar­ket crash until The Hus­band came home and told me. My GE stock took another hit today but that’s okay with me — I’m in for the long term and I’ve only invested fun money. Because I wasn’t watch­ing the mar­ket today, I didn’t take the [...]
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Kids & Money: A 15-yo’s Financials

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 23, 2008
To my reg­u­lar read­ers or those read­ing through my posts in a chrono­log­i­cal man­ner, I apol­o­gize for not fol­low­ing a more lin­ear path when dis­cussing how I’ve han­dled my approach to chil­dren and finances.  Events hap­pened recently to bring our cur­rent finan­cial poli­cies for The Daugh­ter to the fore­front of my think­ing.  I thought, too, [...]
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