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Grandparenthood Can Be Expensive!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In Huffington Post article Boomers Give New Meaning To Spoiling The Grandkids author Linda Stern reported: “Roughly 36 percent of the grandparents surveyed by AARP said “spoiling (grand)children by buying them too much” was a part of a grandparent’s financial role.”. They rarely gave us toys or money.

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Amazon Prime Day (7/15)

Saving With Shellie

Amazon Mom is the best Prime Subscription in my opinion because in addition to all the regular Prime benefits, you also get 20% off lots of kid products like diapers, wipes, pull-ups, toys and more! If you aren’t a student and you don’t have kids, grandkids or other kids in your life, this is the one for you.

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Ways for Busy Parents to Teach Young Children About Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They start to notice that you can trade toys, or trade money for stuff (like a ride on the grocery store pony or candy at the checkout aisle). My grandkids were 6 and 3 and they really got into this! We used real coins and Monopoly bills and their toys as store merchandise. Pre-Kindergarten (Ages three to five). Seeing a movie.

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