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Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money Hardcover – April 22, 2014
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In Smart Money Smart Kids, Dave Ramsey and his daughter, Rachel Cruze, team up to share some personal family stories you don’t want to miss! Get a no-nonsense approach for teaching your kids and teens the basics of money.
Find practical strategies to raise money-smart kids in this debt-crazed world. Smart Money Smart Kids offers common-sense ways to teach these money lessons:
- Where money comes from
- The value of hard work
- How to save, spend, and give
- Debt, and how to avoid it
- Paying cash for college
- Living responsibly
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRamsey Press
- Publication dateApril 22, 2014
- Dimensions6.23 x 1.06 x 9.28 inches
- ISBN-101937077632
- ISBN-13978-1937077631
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As a #1 New York Times best-selling author and seasoned communicator, Rachel Cruze helps Americans learn the proper ways to handle money and stay out of debt. She’s authored three best-selling books, including Love Your Life, Not Theirs and Smart Money Smart Kids. The daughter of Dave Ramsey, she joined Ramsey Solutions in 2010 and uses the knowledge and experiences from growing up in the Ramsey household to educate others. You can follow Cruze on Twitter and Instagram at @RachelCruze and online at rachelcruze.com, youtube.com/rachelcruze or facebook.com/rachelramseycruze.
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- Publisher : Ramsey Press; First Edition (April 22, 2014)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1937077632
- ISBN-13 : 978-1937077631
- Item Weight : 1.12 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.23 x 1.06 x 9.28 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #24,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #108 in Budgeting & Money Management (Books)
- #412 in Parenting (Books)
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About the authors

Rachel Cruze is a two-time #1 national best-selling author, financial expert and host of The Rachel Cruze Show. She has appeared on Good Morning America, TODAY Show and Live! With Kelly & Ryan, among others. Since 2010, Rachel has served at Ramsey Solutions, where she teaches people to avoid debt, save money, budget and how to win with money at any stage in life. Follow Rachel on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube or online at rachelcruze.com.

Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and business. He’s a #1 National bestselling author and host of The Ramsey Show, heard by more than 18 million listeners each week. Dave’s eight national bestselling books include The Total Money Makeover, Baby Steps Millionaires, and EntreLeadership. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Today, Fox News, CNN, Fox Business and many more. Since 1992, Dave has helped people take control of their money, build wealth, and enhance their lives. He also serves as CEO of Ramsey Solutions.
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Financial guru Dave Ramsey and his daughter, Rachel Cruze, team up to teach parents how to “raise money smart kids in a debt-filled world.” Starting with how to teach your children to work, and continuing through what your child should do with their hard earned money (spend, save, give), Dave and Rachel talk about the principles of good money management for children as well as giving the reader plenty of stories of what life was like for the Ramsey kids. The second half of the book dives into more advanced issues such as how to be debt free for life, including how to go to college debt free.
My Thoughts:
I’m a huge Dave Ramsey fan and I’ve read a lot of his books, but this is his first book written with his daughter, Rachel. As usual, Dave presents a no nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is guide to raising money-smart kids. However, the addition of his daughter as an author changes the feel of the book. She offers story after story of what life was like growing up as “Dave Ramsey’s daughter.” The stories she adds give the book humor and somewhat soften Dave’s usual writing style.
Reading a book with two authors can sometimes feel disjointed. Not so with this book. Dave and Rachel identify themselves before each section that they write. They also use two different fonts in the book (one for Dave and one for Rachel) to help the reader remember who is writing at that point. It’s a nice touch that helps make the book feel more connected.
The information presented in Smart Money, Smart Kids is the same information that Dave Ramsey has been preaching for years, but it’s tailored to apply to children. Not only do we get stories of how these principles were applied to Dave’s own children growing up (which are the best parts of the book, in my opinion), but we find out specifically how to implement them in our own families. After talking about each concept in the book, Dave and Rachel break it down by age group and tell us how to apply that concept to our own children. For instance, in the chapter on saving, we’re told that kids younger than 6 need to see their money so it should be kept in a clear container. Six to thirteen year olds need to set small savings goals such as saving for a toy. And children ages 14-18, need to learn how to save for something big, such as a car or college. What you end up with is a very practical guide for how to train your children to handle money at every age.
This is a very well written book. The information presented in it is practical, timely and opposite of what the rest of the world may teach your children about money. And best of all, it’s fun to read. I highly recommend Smart Money, Smart Kids for parents of children ages 18 and younger. Your children will thank you one day for reading this book.
I received a complementary PDF version of this book to review as a member of the Smart Money, Smart Kids launch team. All opinions are my own.
Though I have heard Dave on the radio, this is my first Dave Ramsey book. Rachel gives advice like a modern day, culturally savvy, Mary Poppins remix. She's wise, short but firm with her advice, and everything she says is delivered with a spoon full of sugar. Pairing these two together has worked well for both of them as Dave is much, much sweeter in this book than he appears to be on the radio. Books are a little more warmer in presentation than live radio and don't discount Daughters' influence on their fathers.
I have a shelf full of financial books, a necessity of my past work in the finance industry. I have to say this one is different as it provides the what, how, why and even some savvy predictions of your child's mental state as you introduce them to life in the real world of money. What is absent here is the dryness of the "theory" of the subject; you'll hear no accountants droning on and on. You also won't see any disturbing grandstanding as an author publicly worships his pet concepts and illustrations. You do get page after page of `dead on target' advice, analysis and real life - I did that - illustration.
I'll make a prediction that if you don't buy this book now, you'll buy it one, five, ten, maybe twenty years from now as it finds a rightful place as one of the `go to ` classics of practical, financial education.
It reads in living color like a novel, yet contains the wisdom of a C.S. Lewis narrative. I just couldn't put it down.
For the record, I did not receive a promo copy; I ordered and paid for the book gladly to see the magic a father-daughter team could do with what is normally a dry and boring subject. This book is an entertaining and educational read.
MICHAEL W. JACKSON who co-published with Rene Faith, his fifteen year old daughter, the Amazon eBook Cupid Memeing: Craving Love, Joy and Peace: Engage emotional reality in a superficial world.
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If you weren't taught about it as a child, still useful for you as well.
Talks not only about money, but responsibility and other useful social skills connected to money.










