Parents And Teachers Can Teach Their Children How To Save And How To Spend Money

June 26, 2009 - PRLog -- Today millions of Americans find themselves in serious debt. Many people are unable to live within their means while others have made serious financial mistakes. How can we teach our children the basic skills to avoid the usual pitfalls of bad money management? More importantly, how can we instill in them good common financial sense?

The Adventures of ExoKid and the Teachings of Money is an exciting new children’s book about money that parents, teachers and children can read together. One day ExoKid, a boy from outer space, spies a green piece of paper floating through space. He decides to take the paper back to its source, planet Earth. There he meets Pennie who gives him a tour of a bank and explains how savings accounts work. Later Pennie takes him back to her family where he learns all about how to save money, write up a budget and spend responsibly among other things.

The Adventures of ExoKid and the Teachings of Money begins with elementary explanations of coin and dollar amounts, but as the book progresses, children are introduced to more sophisticated topics such as investments, interest and debt. Each short chapter in the book ends with a list of questions to review the topics and to encourage a dialogue between parents and kids. For example, kids are asked, “What is a budget?” or “Describe the difference between a need and a want.”

The Adventures of ExoKid and the Teachings of Money is a great tool for parents and schools to teach their children and students about finances in a way that not only makes sense but is exciting for them. The dynamic and colorful illustrations by Elizabeth Kapatos will keep children entertained as they learn about the workings of money. Parents and teachers alike will feel relieved that their children and students are learning about finances and children will enjoy riding along with ExoKid!

http://www.www.exokid.com

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Richard Outram CPA FCCA CFE has over 23 years experience as a senior corporate financial executive for major companies around the world and a passion for promoting financial literacy.

The book concept was a dream for 10 years and together with his wife and two boys they finally made it a reality. The need for promoting financial literacy continued to grow passionately over the years where as a senior corporate finance executive, Richard saw the impact that financial stress was having on employee productivity at the workplace. He launched a Financial Literacy training and education company primarily to address the corporate employee market. His learning, experience and research along the way on how to exert the greatest positive influence pointed him back to addressing this important education at home and make an impact with “early adopters” in children. The book is a resource for parents to have that effective dialogue at home and start to build these critical lifelong skills as young as possible.

For further information contact: Ray Robinson at 317-228-3656, via email at RayR@DogEarPublishing.net,  or through the website at: www.dogearpublishing.net

The Adventures of ExoKid and the Teachings of Money
Richard Outram CPA
Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 978-159858-898-9
Full color, 36 pages

Available at Ingram, Baker&Taylor, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble, Borders and fine bookstores everywhere

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Dog Ear Publishing is an author services company located in Indianapolis, IN and specializes in helping indie authors bring their books to market. The link for self publishing services is http://www.dogearpublishing.net