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Tag: financial education

My State Flunked Financial Literacy. How About Yours?

My CFP peers across the nation are probably tired of hearing me sing the praises of living in South Dakota. One of them recently emailed some disturbing news that put some sour notes in my “South Dakota is God’s Country” song. A recent national survey that ranked the...

Teaching Money Skills Essential For 21st Century

For our ancestors, even as recently as the 19th Century in many places, survival skills were hands-on. If you didn’t know how to build a house, farm, hunt, butcher animals, sew, and cook, you couldn’t provide well for your family. Money skills were largely...

Financial Health and Survival Instincts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad6I0q6J2Ug&t=7s My research in psychology, along with 35 years of experience working with people and their finances, suggests that how we handle money is more instinctual than cognitive. It’s more a factor of our brains’...