Comments on: Teaching your kids to save money http://noillusionspodcast.com/2008/06/08/teaching-your-kids-to-save-money/ Science, atheism, politics, futurism, and a hard dose of the truth. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:16:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andre http://noillusionspodcast.com/2008/06/08/teaching-your-kids-to-save-money/comment-page-1/#comment-524380 Andre Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:14:05 +0000 http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/?p=1354#comment-524380 Just give them the laptop? That would ruin the chance to teach them about money management! "Give a man a fish..." Just give them the laptop? That would ruin the chance to teach them about money management! “Give a man a fish…”

]]> By: Cameron http://noillusionspodcast.com/2008/06/08/teaching-your-kids-to-save-money/comment-page-1/#comment-524043 Cameron Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:29:14 +0000 http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/?p=1354#comment-524043 Well, CD, I gave the kids a desktop when they were 4, to share. But they didn't want to share, they wanted their own. I would have bought them their own laptop but by then I was a struggling entrepreneur, living off my wits, not coasting in a job pulling a couple of hundred grand a year like some people I know. Not mentioning any names... :-) Well, CD, I gave the kids a desktop when they were 4, to share. But they didn’t want to share, they wanted their own. I would have bought them their own laptop but by then I was a struggling entrepreneur, living off my wits, not coasting in a job pulling a couple of hundred grand a year like some people I know. Not mentioning any names… :-)

]]> By: CD http://noillusionspodcast.com/2008/06/08/teaching-your-kids-to-save-money/comment-page-1/#comment-523964 CD Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:07:16 +0000 http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/?p=1354#comment-523964 Cam - am surprised you'd get your kids to save for a laptop when you are a pioneer in new technologies and understand better than most the importance of using a computer, new technologies, etc Did you get them to save for electricity? watching TV? travelling by car? I gave my son his first laptop when he was 3. Since we have bought 2 desktops and an Asus eepc for school. Cam – am surprised you’d get your kids to save for a laptop when you are a pioneer in new technologies and understand better than most the importance of using a computer, new technologies, etc

Did you get them to save for electricity? watching TV? travelling by car?

I gave my son his first laptop when he was 3. Since we have bought 2 desktops and an Asus eepc for school.

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