Articles and Downloadable Resources for Parents

Easy Holiday Budgeting Tips

With the holidays around the corner, the mad dash to get everything done can make it easy to blow your holiday budget. How do you decide how much to spend during the holidays? Or do you deal with the financial aftermath when the holidays end?

From Toddlers to Teens: Tips for Talking About Money Management

Money (or the lack of it) constantly makes headlines, but too often we avoid the topic with our kids. Why? Because talking about money isn’t always easy. Yet, if we want to raise financially responsible kids, we need to get talking about money.

Embracing Diversity: How Our Family Makes Our Differences a Part of Everyday Life

This Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked blogger Mary Margaret Reagan-Montiel to write an op-ed piece about how her (very diverse) family uses Bank It to parent well every day.

Making Back-to-School Shopping Better

Which items are on your back-to-school shopping list? Ask your child what she thinks is on the list, and you may discover that your lists are quite different. According to Capital One’s annual back-to-school shopping survey, most parents want to shop for traditional school supplies and clothes. Teenagers, on the other hand, think the back-to-school list should include a computer, a smart phone, and an e-reader. How do you bridge the divide without creating a war with your child?

Summer Jobs: 5 Questions for Parents to Consider

Thinking about letting (or making) your child get a summer job this year? Having a summer job as a kid isn’t always meaningful and rewarding because of the work itself, but it does tend to be fairly significant in terms of personal growth and development.

Downloads

Talking with Teens about Money: A Two-for-One Opportunity By Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Vice President of Research & Development of Search Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

FAFSA: The How-to Guide for High School Students (and the Adults Who Help Them) from the Capital One Foundation and The Center for New York City Affairs at The New School

10 Minutes Together: Taste Test : A quick lesson in money management, value shopping, and nutrition!

10 Minutes Together: Tracking Your Savings Goals : A quick lesson in goal setting, tracking, and celebrating!

10 Minutes Together: Points for Life: A budgeting and planning game that will get kids excited about their future!