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Dollars & Sense For Kids
by Janet Bodnar
This book aimed at parents gives advice on choosing an allowance, considering pay-for-chores, dealing with advertising, distinguishing wants from needs, answering questions on family finances, budgeting, and saving.

     
  The First National Bank of Dad: The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money
by David Owen
The author has devised a new way to teach kids about money. In this book he explains how he helped his children become eager savers and rational spenders by setting up his own bank at home and offering a relatively high rate of return on any amount they chose to save. He also describes at length what he feels is the best investment any parent can make for a child-an idea that will surprise most readers.
     
  Kids Allowances – How Much, How Often & How Come, A Guide for Parents
by David McCurrach
Hundreds of parents share their allowance decisions and author David McCurrach gives his own recommendations. There’s also an accompanying Allowance Workbook for parents and kids that can be customized to reflect your family’s needs and values.
     
  Kids and Money: How Parents Can Raise Responsible Savers, Earners, Spenders and Investors
by Jayne A Pearl
This book offers detailed instructions about how parents can raise their children to be knowledgeable, responsible, intelligent and ethical investors, earners, savers and spenders of money. The author also provides relevant solutions and real-life strategies for teaching money skills and values.
     
  Kids, Parents and Money: Teaching Personal Finances from Piggybank to Prom
by William S. Stawski
This book contains practical and fun strategies that parents can use to teach kids how to be financially savvy and secure.
     
  Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees: A Parents Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children
by Neale S. Godfrey and Carolina Edwards
This guide shows parents how to determine whether their child is a spender or a saver, and how to use allowance to teach financial principles. It also gives advice on how to teach children about earning, saving, investing, and spending.
     
  Money Sense for Kids
by Hollis Harman
This book is packed with information to help parents teach their kids the ABCs of personal finance.
     
  Prodigal Sons and Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child's ATM
by Nathan Dungan
The average child has unrealistic expectations about money, and expensive taste! From the preschooler who begs for another toy to the college student who graduates buried in $10,000 of credit card debt, today's youth lack a sense of financial responsibility. This book was written to help parents influence and shape their child's financial habits. By blending real-world stories with the tools and techniques needed to instill within your children a sense of financial responsibility that will last a lifetime.
     
  Raising Financially Fit Kids
by Joline Godfrey
Godfrey, o ne of the country's leading experts on kids, parents and money, gives parents the secrets and knowledge she has gleaned for a decade of working with kids on financial literacy and business. At the heart of the books lies 10 specific money skills children can master by the age of 18 to become financially secure adults.
     
 
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