Books

Not Your Parents’ Money Book

I believe knowing how to manage our money is one of the most important life skills for adults — and even more important to pass on to our kids. My newest book is intended to help tackle that tricky topic. Not Your Parents’ Money Book: Making, Spending, and Saving Your Own Money is for the next generation of our nation’s spenders and savers, who need to know where money comes from, how they can earn it, and what they can do with it once it’s in their pocket.

It’s the product of a lot of research, done over the span of a year, with kids across the country. (I have teens of my own, so I know what happens with books that bore them: I find them gathering dust under the bed!)  So I conducted a series of informal focus groups, asking middle schoolers what they already know about money and what they want to know — and then wrote the book to meet their needs.  I hope you’ll take a few minutes to look at my new book, and then take a few more minutes to sit down and talk to your kids about money (have the National Money Night Talk). It’ll be one of the most rewarding conversations you’ve had with your kids yet.