Money Doesn't Grow On Trees: Teaching Your Kids The Value Of A Buck - Softcover

Kay, Ellie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800787250 ISBN 13: 9780800787257

Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co, 2005

Synopsis

Raise Money-Smart Kids

Ellie Kay, “savings queen” and the mother of five, provides down-to-earth, practical ways to teach kids how to handle money wisely. Her signature humor and creative, helpful advice, along with tips from other parents, make this an easy-to-follow guide for parents of preschoolers through teens.

As kids discover that Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, with your help they’ll learn to:

Save Give Budget Live on their own Earn their own money and more.

About this title

About the Author

Ellie Kay has moved eleven times in thirteen years and has five children. She knows firsthand the value of balancing family responsibilities and a pocketbook. Armed with a $250 monthly grocery budget, Ellie Kay consistently saves her family thousands of dollars a year on household products with an easy, streamlined savings system that has become a favorite of women everywhere.

Founded in 1988, Ellie's Shop, Save, and Share Seminars have been delivered to audiences across the nation and have even been made into a film for the Air Force Family Support Center. She is a graduate of Colorado Christian University with a degree in management of human resources.

Ellie's trademark wit and homespun humor come through in her writing. Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, is written to help parents teach their children to handle money wisely. Shop, Save, and Share and How to Save Money Every Day emphasize the Christian's unique call to stewardship and giving to others.

Her books promise to show families how to lower their food budgets by 50% to 85%, as well as save in nearly every other area of life. They provide practical advice that’s easily passed on to children on better ways to shop and gives terrific ideas for giving back a portion of what has been saved.

An engaging speaker, Ellie has appeared on over 300 radio stations and numerous national TV shows. She and her husband, Lt. Colonel Bob Kay, along with their children, make their home in New Mexico.

Review

"A mother of five, financial expert Ellie Kay shares easy-to-follow ideas to help children understand the value of a dollar." -- Today's Christian Woman Jan-Feb 2002

"Kay shares techniques she used with her own five children ...signature humor makes this a fun book to read." -- Christian Retailing, Jan. 17, 2002

About this edition

• Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0800787250
• ISBN 13: 9780800787257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 207