Lesson Tag: child care

Many of us had to learn the hard way about managing money, credit and planning. Some of us are still struggling with these issues. Whether you are a fiscal wizard or a beginner, you can teach your children essential financial literacy. The skills you teach your children will help them develop habits that will enrich the rest of their lives. Understanding the nature of money, what it can and cannot do, and how to make it work in your life are all learned skills you can help children acquire right now. 

Participants will be able to: 

• Recognize the nature of financial literacy and why it is important 
• Identify key concepts and skills to teach to children by age group 
• Recognize the difference between a Roth and traditional IRA and what to teach children about those financial tools 
• Reflect on your own financial literacy and how you are doing as a role model 
• Identify debt danger signals 
• Apply practical methods of teaching financial literacy using a structured child budget and allowance method 

Raising healthy children with an ability to sustain meaningful relationships is a challenge even in the most ideal situations. Add on hormones, attitude, personality, technology and shelter-in-place - welcome to the tween and teen years! This digital class will include a conversation about parenting the independent, emerging adult while still nurturing the playful child within.

We will talk specifically about building relationships during this very unpredictable time. You will have the opportunity to explore making stronger connections through conversation and confrontation in the context of real-life situations. Participants will be able to:

• Initiate and maintain an open dialogue
• Support your child’s social life
• Broach the difficult subjects

Many of us had to learn the hard way about managing money, credit and planning. Some of us are still struggling with these issues. Whether you are a fiscal wizard or a beginner, you can teach your children essential financial literacy. The skills you teach your children will help them develop habits that will enrich the rest of their lives. Understanding the nature of money, what it can and cannot do, and how to make it work in your life are all learned skills you can help children acquire right now. 

Participants will be able to: 

• Recognize the nature of financial literacy and why it is important 
• Identify key concepts and skills to teach to children by age group 
• Recognize the difference between a Roth and traditional IRA and what to teach children about those financial tools 
• Reflect on your own financial literacy and how you are doing as a role model 
• Identify debt danger signals 
• Apply practical methods of teaching financial literacy using a structured child budget and allowance method 

Many parents and caregivers are concerned about how to plan for opening up our activities, businesses, and schools during this pandemic. This class will help parents of tweens and teens to plan, with their families, how to be safe while rejoining our communities in person and making the back-to-school transition.  

• Does it feel like it’s time for your child to be in a classroom?
• Did your child enjoy online learning but you want to do something more?
• Are you torn between the benefits of social stimulation and creative teachers and fear of the pandemic?

The start of a new school year brings up more questions for parents of young children. For many years, small groups of parents have joined forces to provide the benefits of early care and education classrooms. Early childhood cooperatives have sprung up out of parents with shared values banning together to share teaching and care responsibilities. Other options also exist from high cost nannies to shared cost, microschools, to loving, lower cost family day care homes, to learning from home with resources from public schools.

But how to proceed when there are so many possibilities? This class will help you assess and plan for your young child’s care and education experiences.

You will be able to:

• Identify your education values for your children
• Analyze the unique needs of your child and family
• Identify well-understood models for educating young children outside of classrooms
• Recognize the financial cost vs time benefits for parents of each approach
• Apply first steps in finding resources to get something off the ground