Not exact matches
«These Gen Zers have seen their
parents struggle financially [due to the recession and student loan crisis], so
parents are having
conversations about finances,
money and debt
with kids earlier.
«Probably the mistake
parents make most is that they don't have
conversations about
money with their kids,» said Laura Levine, president and chief executive of the Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.
Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more
conversations with clients lately about young people saving
money — although mostly these involve affluent
parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.
And you have to have those tough
conversations today, or if you don't, when you're trying to retire or when the
money runs out when you're 70, and then you're going to be having those
conversations with your kids about why you're going have to move in
with them, or how we're going to make arrangements to provide for your
parents.
Some
conversation topics that should be avoided at all costs when talking
with your children include: negative comments about the other
parent (and their family and friends), the divorce process and events leading up to it,
money in the context of child support, details of your spouse's life or your children's time
with your spouse.