Beyond Piggy Banks and Lemonade Stands - by Liz Frazier (Hardcover)

About the Book

Beyond Piggy Banks is a light-hearted simple guide for parents to teach young children the fundamentals of finance. By incorporating it into their everyday life and using activities, games, quizzes and other fun and interactive tools, your child will build the strong financial...

Book Synopsis

Beyond Piggy Banks is a light-hearted simple guide for parents to teach young children the fundamentals of finance. By incorporating it into their everyday life and using activities, games, quizzes and other fun and interactive tools, your child will build the strong financial foundation needed to make smart decisions as they grow.

Review Quotes

As an educator and writer for young people, I found Frazier's book a revelation. At last, a clear and fun-filled way to empower kids across the spectrum of childhood to understand money matters and making responsible financial choices. Beyond Piggy Banks is a must for parents and teachers!

Exceptional . . . This approachable book should alleviate any anxiety parents have about teaching their kids how to handle money.

Liz Frazier has been providing insightful family-friendly financial advice to Forbes readers for years. If ever there were an undernourished topic in our education system, it is financial planning. Beyond Piggy Banks and Lemonade Stands is a breath of fresh air and must-read for young parents who want their kids to grow up into "money smart" adults.

Liz Frazier has written a must-read for anyone wanting to teach financial education to their children...Read this book and learn from one of the best. I'm constantly asked what my recommendation is from parents and caregivers on how they should teach children about money--and this is it! Beyond Piggy Banks and Lemonade Stands will be my go-to-guide for many years to come.

This is one of those perfect parenting books, in which parents themselves can learn lessons as they educate their children. Is kindergarten too early to teach kids about cash? Certainly not, according to author and financial planner Frazier. And, down the line, if we help young adult children calculate their apartment rental budget, they may not re-establish life at home post-college. Frazier recommends books, websites, apps, and online games as valuable tools for the financial training process. Added to her often-amusing examples and scenarios, they'll make readers feel like they've enrolled in Finance 101. While the book as a whole may feel a bit weighty, Frazier reminds readers that individual lessons won't, and shouldn't, happen in just one day, a month, or even a year. Financial wisdom evolves over a lifetime, and so will the ways we teach our kids about money. With so few books on this topic geared for educating for young children, Beyond Piggy Banks is an especially good edition to public library parenting collections.

We teach our kids to read, to do math, to help with chores, to share, but we often overlook financial literacy. Teaching money smarts should start at a young age, but with all the other "to-dos" of parenthood, it often gets overlooked. Understanding how to manage and grow one's money is crucial to having a successful life. After all, do you really want your jobless, asset-less middle-aged child to move back in someday? Enter Beyond Piggy Banks and Lemonade Stands, a book even the busiest of parents can read in tiny chunks while hiding in the bathroom. Its practical advice is presented in an entertaining and compelling way.

About the Author

Liz Frazier is a Certified Financial Planner specializing in financial planning for families and working professionals. She decided to go into financial planning after the birth of her first child because, like so many other new parents, she realized the overwhelming need to make sure her family was financially prepared and protected. Her goal is to alleviate the anxiety that surrounds finances and provide simple and painless advice for all of life's stages and changes.