Category Archives: Money

Kids and Business — Things to do This Summer

As promised, a few ideas about what you can do with your children this summer that teaches them more about money, finances, and leads them to a life of prosperity. Don’t forget to listen to the previous episode that helps you with basic philosophy. And don’t forget to contribute your ideas below, here on this website. Feel free to ask your questions too. Invest.

Carl Sommer’s Principles of Success

Last week, we talked to Carl Sommer about his books for young children that teach character principles — like the mouse who discovered it was best to pay attention to what his mother said. This time he lost only his tail! And how the bear found his smile.

Mr. Sommer gave us a great discount of 25% this month for typing in the code “great.” This applies even to a subset of his books that have library binding that are already on sale for half price of …. get this… $4.95. We can’t be sure that there will be any of those books left. My librarian and preschool director friends have probably already snapped them up. So go right now.

All of the books are inexpensive for what they are and the 25% discount is great by itself. Be sure to peruse the whole website. You will find some free things. www.advancepublishing.com

In this episode, Mr. Sommer let out that he writes even more than is on www.advancepublishing.com. Advance Publishing specializes in character building books, in a variety of languages, that teach character principles and are acceptable to public schools in the USA. But there is more. He is part of a project that teaches math. He provides the practical lessons, so students understand that math really is needed in the real world. For math resources, all the way up to Trigonometry www.numbersuccess.com. This is suitable for public, private or homeschool educators.

Then, for specifically Christian content, especially success principles for youth, go to www.dovepublishers.com.

Finally, for the the ebook format for the Kindle or iPad, let us help you with direct links. For a fee ebook edition of Education in Crisis go here. And for Teen Success in ebook form, go here. Many of his books are online with various vendors, including his books on Electric Discharge Machining, even a book on sex for young people, and his book

that originally alerted me to his work.

Please let us know which books of his you like most below.

Financial Freedom

Books for children and youth on finances:

Financial Focus for Kids: Discovering God’s Amazing Plan for Our Money
Financial Focus for Youth: Junior High Edition
Financial Focus for Youth: Senior High Edition
all by by Debt Free army with Joyce Simmons

for more information, see : www.debtfreearmy.org

My episode on how to teach your children about finances from last Spring is still on the player. Just select “Listen Now” above and scroll down.

Moneydoxy and orthomoneyism

I woke up dreaming about teaching about teaching about money and having this new word: Moneydoxy. Moneydoxy would be praise and worship of money. Orthomoney thinking would be straight thinking about money.

I hear plenty of people who worship money. We should know better. This is idolatry and greed, both of which are clearly taught against. I also am wondering if some of my friends aren’t straying into this thinking that focussing on money and glamour is itself worship. It is fine and good to have money; it is better to worship God with it. Sure, beauty and good life can be glory to God; sharing to help, sowing, according to the mercy and will of God is obviously glorifying to God.

The old lessons are not erased by the new.

Orthomoney thinking maybe is the newer lesson in the church. Teaching as I was when young that money is unimportant is not right. Teaching that being poor is ipso facto holiness is wrong.

Straight thinking is to receive blessing from God and reward for good work. Straight thinking is to be willing to do without for a missionary purpose. Straight thinking is teaching the whole picture to children.

You want your children to be hard workers rather than expect you and world to support them. You want your children take appropriate measures to have enough. You want your children to put ethical principles and obedience to God ahead of their desire to have things and bling. You want to teach them in ways that will help them get to where you want them to end up as adults.