We all want to give ours kids a head start to life, and there are a ton of ideas out there about parenting. Finding the ones that resonate with your family values, ideals and plain old common sense can sometimes be a challenge.
Here you’ll find the ideas we’ve tried with our kids, and what’s worked best to help give them a head start to life.
This week I am super excited to have our very first guest post here at Freedom101! Last year when I wrote about our ongoing analysis between choosing Public School, Private School or Homeschooling for our kids, Chrissy from Eat Sleep Breath FI, had some great comments and insight to offer…
After spending the last 5 weeks talking all about Early Retirement – I’m dying to get back into talking about kids financial literacy, and more ways for us parents to give our kids the tools they’ll need to lead a financially secure and fulfilling life. This week we’re going to…
I feel like this post could morph into a full blown book – there’s just so many areas to delve into on this topic, but I’ll do my best to boil down the salient points into a reasonable read time! If it wasn’t clear by the title, I fall firmly…
Though one might think a government introduced education savings tool would be structured to be simple to understand, Canadian Registered Educations Savings Plans (RESP’s) are instead one of the most complex tax advantaged accounts in Canada. God forbid the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) make saving for your kids education straightforward!…
Choosing the right school for your kids isn’t a hot topic in the Financial Independence/Financial Freedom community, but it probably should be. Public, private or home schooling, each comes with its own financial implications that need to be factored into your overall plan in achieving FF. For anyone planning on…
What is the word you hear Baby Boomers and Gen X’ers use most often to describe Millennials and their children? Entitled. Sadly they aren’t wrong. Since the birth if the baby boomers, each subsequent generation has had substantially increasing advantages and opportunities. Unfortunately those increasing opportunities don’t seem to equate…
In an era of ever improving digital content, board games have been relegated to the back of the storage closet, doomed to collect dust. Even the new Jumanji movie has abandoned the board game concept in favour of a video game. As my nine (9) year old niece told me…
There is no doubt that our current educational system is drastically lacking in it’s ability to teach our kids about money, let alone how to properly manage it. But, blaming our schools is a bit of a cop out. At the end of the day it’s our job as parents…