How to Ensure Social Media Safety for Kids

How much do you know about your child’s social media usage? Almost half of pre-teen kids (9-12 years old) own a smartphone. A CNN feature on smartphone and tablet use highlighted that they often spend as much as five hours on their devices daily for entertainment purposes. During this period, kids tend to amuse themselves by watching videos on YouTube and browsing through social...Read More

3 ways You Can Influence Your Child’s Gratification Style

YOU influence your child’s financial learning and gratification style. Gratification styles are one of the most common concepts in financial learning. If you have not heard of it, let’s watch this video to get an idea of what gratification is. While this may sound like “grown-up stuff”, we experience gratification from young. Although children tend to prefer instant gratification,...Read More

3 Key Money Lessons To Teach Your Child

Teaching kids about money is challenging. We often learn how to teach the value of money by observing our parents, through collective wisdom on social media and having conversations with our children when opportunities arise. This means that children do not get a holistic and complete view about how to manage money. Their learning is limited by what they are exposed to. After talking to...Read More

Money Lessons for Children with Paid Housework

I recently interviewed two mothers who had contrasting views on the idea of paying their children to do household chores. Both were right in their views – the one who refused to pay wanted her children to learn to help out with housework as a form of contributing to the family without the expectation of being rewarded financially. On the other hand, the other wanted her children to...Read More

The Art of Respect in Parenting

We did a recent survey where surprisingly all parents unanimously shared a view that successful parenting is having their children grow up healthy and respectful. Interestingly, academic success was not a priority. Although, it was mentioned in passing as a means to ensuring that the child grew up to have enough. With the resounding mention given to respect, we thought we will flash this out...Read More

Healthy Sentences For Growth Mindset in Kids

We absolutely love this poster!  Often, kids pick up the language we use and mimic after us.  A careless question of “Can you really do it?” may seem harmless to us, but can undermine and affect a child’s confidence & ability to perform.  As adults, we need to practice responsible speech in our conversations with the little ones, so as to build their confidence and...Read More