Books
10 Books That Will Empower You to Teach Your Kids About Money
College
The Complete Guide to Saving for Your Children’s College
Vehicles
The Complete Guide to Kids & Cars (Finances, Rules, & Buying Tips)
Definitions
15 Finance Terms Your Child Needs to Understand
Preparation
11 Things Every Child Must Know About Money
Gratitude
Teaching Thankfulness & Gratitude
Finance in Schools
The Need for Children’s Financial Education
Teach Finances
5 Realistic Ways to Teach Your Children About Finances
Blogging With Kids
How to Help Your Child Start a Blog: The Complete Guide
From the Blog:
Alarming Studies That Show How Advertising Affects Your Kids (And How to Protect Them)
Kids have the largest influence in what and where your family eats, entertainment choices, family vacations, and many other aspects of your life, according to a study on homes in Canada 1. Advertisers not only know this, they exploit it. Companies went from spending...
How Much it Costs to Raise a Child to 18 (And How to Make it Cost Much Less)
It costs an average of $233,610 to raise a child from birth to age 17, according to a USDA study 1. What all does that cost include? Is there a way to do it for less without sacrificing the important stuff? Absolutely. This is the average. The average person is in...
40+ Christian, Family, and Children’s Finance Blogs
It’s not uncommon for someone to start a finance blog, write some good posts, and then disappear off the face of the earth. It’s easy to spot when you go to a blog and see that their last post was right around the time internet was invented. I’ve...
How to Help Your Child Start a Blog in 2019: The Complete Guide
The minimum age to use most blogging platforms is 13. Younger kids can still blog, but you’ll have to set up the blog and assist. 13 is simply the minimum age for your kids to set up a blog of their own, on their own. There are many benefits to blogging for your...
The Complete Guide to Kids & Cars (Finances, Rules, & Buying Tips)
It’s time for your kids to start driving! What an exciting [and terrifying] feeling. The good news is that you’ll be informed, so you don’t have to be caught off guard by any of the common craziness that surrounds the first years of teen driving. You...
11 Things Every Child Must Know About Money (Before Leaving Home)
The goal here at Freedom Sprout is to teach kids the things that we, as parents, had to learn the hard way. If we teach our children solid financial principles now, we won’t be teaching them how to recover from bankruptcy later. So I’ve created this list...
How Generous Giving Replaced the Tithe (And Why Everyone Should Give)
One day I was hit with the revelation that tithing applied to me, or rather, that I should be giving. The fact is, this really has nothing to do with tithing 1, and everything to do with generous giving. But at the time, I was stuck on the 10% and that’s where the...
How to Stop Making Excuses and Start Living With Confidence
Excuses are funny, because we notice them more from others than from ourselves. Why is it important to talk about excuses? Because excuses may be hindering you more than you could ever know. We all have an excuses for something somewhere in our life. Hopefully you...
Teaching Thankfulness & Gratitude: How to Raise Grateful Children
Today is a great day to talk about gratitude. Christmas reminds us of all that Jesus did on earth, and what He continues to do today. As adults, it’s still difficult to always be thankful. It’s easy to get caught up in our daily routine, and forget to stop...
How to Define Productivity as a Christian & Live a Productive Christian Life
We all want to be productive. Productive employees, spouses, parents… productive people. But how is productivity different for Christians? There is the worldly view of productivity and success – producing more to earn more money. The worldly view of productivity...