
Kids, Money & Values: Creative Ways to Teach Your Kids About Money
Patricia Schiff Estess and Irving Barocas, Betterway Books, 1994 It’s no surprise that Kids, Money & Values is still in print: it gives practical ideas and exercises for parents and other adults to use with children. Authors Estess and Barocas first present a developmental chart of usual interests, skills and abilities of children from preschool age to the early teens as they relate to arithmetic, money, property, and honesty issues. Next they invite readers to answer a quiz about their own goals for the children they have in mind. Each chapter presents a scenario, then discusses different options for adult response to the child. Topics range from parenting and passing on values, to earning, saving and investing; and from spending, sharing and caring, to making responsible choices. Allowances can help…