Tag: learning

Money 101: Fun and Interactive Ways to Teach Kids about Personal Finance

October 28, 2016

In today’s world, it’s essential to have a good grasp of personal finance. By instilling healthy money habits in your children from an early age, you can help them avoid financial pitfalls later in life. But let’s face it; talking to kids about money can be challenging. It’s essential to make teaching personal finance fun and engaging.

Empowering the Next Generation: 5 Steps to Raise Financially Confident Kids

November 21, 2015

As parents, we all want our children to grow up to be confident and independent individuals. One of the most important skills we can teach them is financial literacy. Knowing how to manage money is a crucial life skill that will benefit them in the long run. By teaching our kids the value of money and the importance of saving, we can empower them to make smart financial decisions in the future.

I recently discovered a blog by JD Roth, the guy that started get rich slowly. I’m enjoying reading his articles, and would like to highlight a few in my posts. One of the first that caught my attention was about tenacity verses talent, largely because I think I fall in the tenacity section! It describes about learning a new skill and the hours needed to become competent or to gain mastery. If you want to be reasonably competent, you need to spend approximately Continue Reading

Free Self-Education

July 30, 2014

I’m hoping to become wiser as I get older, and I have found a couple of great sites for furthering my knowledge, and for free! One is the The Saylor Foundation,which is a non-profit started by Michael Saylor, having a ‘Free Education Initiative’ that provides 316 courses representing some of the highest US degree majors.

The second is the Khan Academy, which was started by Salman Khan in 2006, whose goal is to provide “a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”, an impressive goal to say the least. Continue Reading

Free Stuff – Audio Books

April 7, 2014

Visiting your library for free books, CD’s and DVDs is a great way to entertain and hopefully educate yourself. For listening to audiobooks I have recently found two sites that look great in this regard, by providing downloads for free: Continue Reading

The Library, An Oasis of Frugality

April 2, 2014

In reading this blog I hope to help you graduate with honors in the life skill of Frugality, in spite of the huge temptation to work paycheck to paycheck. Aiding us in the lands of consumer culture are major outposts of frugality that can be found in virtually every town, which are in the guise of the public library.

Why do libraries promote frugality? Continue Reading

Learn a Language for Free

March 21, 2014

Learning a language can be a lot of fun, apparently is good for keeping your brain healthy, through helping prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. It can also be an enjoyable and frugal hobby.

I have started learning Spanish, which I am pretty terrible at, but hopefully I’ll improve rapidly. You can start learning the language for free from a couple of sites that I have found so far. Continue Reading