Saving for your child’s education will likely improve the odds that she will participate in post-secondary education by diminishing financial barriers and building a financial nest egg. ~ Mike Holman Whenever I was looking for detailed information about RESPs, I would always end up at Mike Holman’s blog. It used to be called Four Pillars,…
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Financial Literacy Update #2
I wasn’t planning on having enough material to do another Financial Literacy Update just one week after the first one, but I received an email last week that I really wanted to bring to your attention. Before I get to that, here are a couple of articles on financial literacy issues that you might want…
Financial Literacy Is Like Green Eggs and Ham
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~ Bill Beattie Update #1: This post was included in the Carnival of…
5 Financial Toxins and Antidotes
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith Update: This post is featured in the Carnival of Personal Finance – Women in History Edition posted at Simply Forties. Thanks! I mentioned at the end…
Task Force on Financial Literacy: Gold Medal
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~ Proverb On February 22, the Task Force on Financial Literacy released a public consultation document called Leveraging Excellence. The task force was established by the Canadian Minister of Finance in 2009 to examine ways to boost the financial…
3 Keys to Change Part I: Education and the Shampoo Cycle
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you…
