Lillian on May 19th, 2009

Isn’t it every parent’s dream that their child will be financially secure in their life? Children learn their financial habits from their parents, but many adults today struggle financially. Why? They never learned how to manage money, and they don’t have the know-how to teach their kids about money. And so the cycle continues.
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Lillian on May 22nd, 2008

May12, 2008, a severe earthquake occurred at 14:28 in Sichuan province of China. The second day, one of Microsoft employees in China sent Bill Gates an email telling about the earthquake. Bill responded quickly: My foundation is giving 10M RMB which will be announced the next day.
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Lillian on April 25th, 2008

The financial education for kids is one of the topics that I like to discuss the most.  Based on Robert’s (author of “Rick Dad, Poor Dad”) point of view, in Information Era,  kids need not only the traditional acadamic education( like math, reading, etc) and professional education in university, but also need financial education which teachs them how […]

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Lillian on March 16th, 2008

I like the saying that Money is a tool.  In practice,  it is actually a very good idea and very much effective to use real money as a tool to teach kids about the money concept.  For example, here is an easy game for little ones that we used quite often and found it works.  This is how we play:
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