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Practical Money Skills for Life

The Mint - Tips for Parents
Tips and tools for mentoring and nurturing children, to help them develope good financial habits.
Young Children (Preschool–Grade 2)
Activities and lessons to help your young children learn about: Money, Allowance, Saving, Spending and Values.
Children (Grades 3–6)
Upper elementary school children are more aware of the world around them and these lessons will help them have a better understanding of Allowance, Behavior, Chores, Saving, Investing, Accountability, Spending, and Values.
Teens (Grades 7–12)
These lessons will help young adults learn about the following financial literacy topics: Juggling Allowance, Chores, and Work, Saving and Investing, Accountability, Spending, and Values.

Saving Money

Piggy Bank Lessons
Learn to Save offers activity ideas to help students learn how to wisely share, save and spend money.
Bubblebank
Bubblebank is a smart and educational pocket money manager - it calculates earned pocket money and interest. Parents retain the cash but bubblebank tracks the balance. It's a simple and fun way to teach children about banking, saving and the value of money.
Some Saving Tricks
Here are some money saving tricks to share with your children.
CNN Money
Six easy lessons to help parents teach young children that money doesn’t grow on trees.

General Resources

Jump$tart Coalition
A collection of online, print, and video materials for helping your kids learn about personal finance.
Tips for Parents: Talk to Your Kids
For some reason, Money lands right behind Sex in discussions that parents would just as soon avoid.Use these tips to talk to your children about money.
Utah's Educational Savings Plan
It is never too early to start saving for your child's college education. Learn more ...
Utah Mentor
This online resource will help students and their families select a college, apply for admission, and plan to finance higher education.
Economic Literacy Test
Despite society’s claim that they value economic literacy many adults are not able to answer basic economic questions. See how you do.

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