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	<title>Teaching Kids Dollars &#38; Sense &#187; ideas</title>
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	<description>Doing more than just "winging" it</description>
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		<title>Generation Broke</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting Business Week interview of Neale Godfrey. Neale is a renowned expert on children and family finance and has written several books on the subject.

In this interview, she discusses raising money-smart kids and &#8220;Generation Broke&#8221; (you guessed it &#8211; our current generation!). 
We like Neale, both professionally and personally  &#8211; I wonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More about using Active Allowance in school</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Dan Gasteazoro,  a Grade 4 teacher at Glacier Hills Elementary School in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been using Active Allowance in his classroom for the past two years. I asked him whether he found it useful in teaching his kids about financial literacy. Here are his comments:

I am incorporating your site to instill Financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A teacher&#8217;s use of Active Allowance in School</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie &#38; Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Dan Gasteazoro is an Active Allowance member. Dan is also a Grade 4 teacher at Glacier Hills Elementary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

 And wow&#8230;.what a creative teacher! Not only does Dan use the site for his family — he also figured out a novel way to use Active Allowance for his grade 4 class. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debit Cards for Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/debit-cards-for-teens/64/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 22:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I wish we had done this ages ago!

 We took advantage several weeks ago of a free service from our bank (TD). We created child bank accounts for each of our teens (14 and 17) and gave them debit cards to access them.

Now, when they want money from their virtual family bank account at Active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids, Sports and Bonding</title>
		<link>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/kids-sports-and-bonding/53/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from the UK where I took my older two boys (12 and 14) as a special treat. They’re both talented junior squash players (the sport, not the vegetable) so they qualified to play in the Scottish Junior Open and the British Junior Open (the world’s premiere tournament for junior squash). Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Active Allowance in School?</title>
		<link>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/active-allowance-in-school/47/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, my hair loss is accelerating. I really have to stop pulling it!
We recently had yet another, ummmm, not so perfect Parent/Teacher interview. Same old story — our gifted 10 year old&#8217;s behavior still leaves something to be desired. Not evil &#8230;. just frustrating. He has a lot more &#8220;stop&#8221; behaviors than &#8220;start&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s good for the goose&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/whats-good-for-the-goose/41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting idea from one of our members &#8211; she created a Responsibilities Checklist for herself so she can model appropriate behavior for her children. This helps her show her kids that Checklists aren&#8217;t a punishment &#8211; that they&#8217;re really a useful tool you&#8217;ll use your entire life to help you remember to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teens doing chores: Mission possible? &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/teens-doing-chores-mission-possible-part-ii/25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/teens-doing-chores-mission-possible-part-ii/25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are are a few more ideas, following up on last week’s article, to help you implement a chores/allowance system with your teen.

	Petty Cash = more autonomy If you’re using a system like Active Allowance, with a virtual Family Bank instead of a piggy bank, be sure to let them know they can write a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teens doing chores: Mission Possible?</title>
		<link>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/teens-doing-chores-mission-impossible/24/</link>
		<comments>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/teens-doing-chores-mission-impossible/24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Active Allowance Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a question we often get at Active Allowance:
“Any idea how we can inspire our 13-yr old to actually cooperate with our new allowance &#38; chores system?”
There’s no doubt it’s tougher to get teens started on a new system if they never had chores or responsibilities when they were younger. Nevertheless, we do have members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Responsibilities</title>
		<link>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/summer-responsibilities-2/5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.activeallowance.com/blog/summer-responsibilities-2/5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the kids will soon be (or already are) off school for the summer, you may have noticed their usual Responsibilities Checklist doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense (this comment makes sense to Active Allowance members) &#8211; my kids take great delight in putting NA beside &#8220;being ready for school&#8221;!

Here&#8217;s an idea for Active [...]]]></description>
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