{"id":35234,"date":"2020-02-01T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=35234"},"modified":"2020-02-01T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T20:09:33","slug":"book-freak-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/book-freak-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #45:  How to Not Spoil Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve arrived here from the newsletter, here&#8217;s the link to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2vItr3d\">The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money<\/a> on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is a weekly newsletter with short pieces of advice from books. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Subscribe here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ron Lieber is the &#8220;Your Money&#8221; columnist for <em>The New York Times<\/em>. Here is advice from his book, <em>The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be aware of the four things that spoiled children have in common<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cSpoiled children tend to have four primary things in common, though they don\u2019t all have to be present at once: They have few chores or other responsibilities, there aren\u2019t many rules that govern their behavior or schedules, parents and others lavish them with time and assistance, and they have a lot of material possessions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Encourage kids to ask good questions<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cOne way to make sure children know that questions are welcome is to praise their asking them so routinely that posing good ones becomes a habit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use money as a teaching tool<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cMoney is central, but it is also a teaching tool that uses the value of a dollar to instill in our children the values we want them to embrace. These traits\u2014curiosity, patience, thrift, modesty, generosity, perseverance, and perspective\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Encourage your kids to save by being their bank<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cTo create an exciting alternative to consumption, start a bank at your house (and on a Google spreadsheet) that pays about 20 percent in annual interest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short pieces of advice from books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35240,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234\/revisions\/35240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}