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Back-to-School Budgeting: Educating Parents.

August 31st, 2009 by Laurie Campbell

 

Ahhh … back to school. The commercial says it all. It really is the most wonderful time of the year! Except for the effect on your pocketbook if you’re a parent. As much as you try to emphasize to your children the need to budget and conserve, your advice to them does sometimes feel like it’s falling on deaf ears.

In what some refer to as the 21st Century of Entitlement, we all know how demanding kids can be. I happen to have two at home. So far, they’ve told me the household needs a new computer printer, new software programs and why not throw in a new computer to get ready for another year of hitting the books. (more…)