Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees by Neale S. Godfrey

Once a banker, Neale S. Godfrey, started the Children’s Financial Network, Inc. after realizing there was too little information available to parents about children and finances. This book is part of her solution to that problem. While finance can be a difficult subject, Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees breaks everything down into manageable pieces that will help parents teach their children valuable lessons about money.

Besides the solid information and advice the book provides, it also includes definitions children will understand, games and exercises to start teaching even the youngest learners about money, and quizzes and checklists to help children approach things like banking and the stock market.  The book covers everything a teenager should know about finances before leaving the house – including detailed information about taxes, budgets, and tipping. While this age group seems to be the focus of the book, Godfrey also provides information about helping very young children start to understand the importance of money as well as how to deal with adult children who still lives at home. As information about money management is something adults need to understand and use everyday, and with so many children and teenagers so grossly uninformed while their parents are unsure of how to help, this book is an extremely important parenting tool – and one that is often overlooked. While Godfrey herself claims to feel as though she has only “scratched the surface on the subject of teaching your child about money,” the book goes a long way in helping parents deal with a very important subject and better prepare their children for the real world.  

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