{"id":1408,"date":"2011-04-20T13:27:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dadcents.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2011-04-20T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:28:46","slug":"who-has-the-most-influence-on-your-teens-money-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/2011\/04\/who-has-the-most-influence-on-your-teens-money-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you influence your teen&#8217;s money habits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"parents-sway-teen-money-habits\" src=\"http:\/\/images.christianpost.com\/b-Normal\/20100729\/1536\/parents-sway-teen-money-habits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"373\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The results of a new poll by the Northwestern Mutual Foundation\u2019s  financial literacy Web site, Themint.org show YOU, the parent, have the  greatest influence on your child&#8217;s money habits!  According to the press  release, &#8220;The poll asked teens to choose who had the biggest influence  on the way that they saved or spent money. In a landslide, seven out of  ten kids aged 17 and younger said \u201cparents\u201d swayed their actions the  most, outpacing \u201cfriends\u201d (16%), \u201cTV, magazines, books, radio or  celebrities\u201d (14%), and \u201cteachers\u201d (1%).&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do these survey results surprise you?  The results may or may not be  a revelation to you but the end result should be an evaluation of your  preparedness to model and teach your children.  Would fear or relief be  your response if you knew your children would have spending habits just  like yours when they become adults?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Northwestern Mutual&#8217;s survey &#8220;also asked teens how they would grade  their parents as role models for saving and spending money. Nearly seven  out of ten kids aged 17 and younger gave their parents either a \u201cB\u201d or a  \u201cC\u201d grade, saying that moms and dads should spend money more  responsibly and involve everyone in conversations about the family  budget. Less than 30 percent of children honored their parents with an  \u201cA.\u201d Fortunately, only two percent of parents received a failing grade.&#8221;   How would you grade your ability to model wise financial decisions?<\/span><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have found kids are always ready to evaluate their parents but are  you ready for the answer?  I know teaching your children financial  principles is challenging because it is not second nature for most of  us.  You have a responsibility to your children and I recognize the  desire of every parent I speak with is for your children to leave home  knowing more about money than you did when you left your parents home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What are you going to do to affect that change?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of a new poll by the Northwestern Mutual Foundation\u2019s financial literacy Web site, Themint.org show YOU, the parent, have the greatest influence on your child&#8217;s money habits! According to the press release, &#8220;The poll asked teens to choose who had the biggest influence on the way that they saved or spent money. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[158,168,170,11,169,129,167],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-concepts","tag-dads","tag-habits","tag-moms","tag-money","tag-parents","tag-teaching-2","tag-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}