Book Review: “Kids, Wealth, and Consequences” (& US/CAN Giveaway Ends 2/25)

Kids, Wealth, and Consequences: Ensuring a Responsible Financial Future for the Next Generation

By Richard Morris and Jayne Pearl
288Pages (Hardcover)
Date Published: February 3, 2010

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Leaving children with a substantial amount of money can be a boon or a burden. High-net-worth parents need to give their children an education to navigate today’s complex world. The question becomes how to raise children with a sense of reality and balance, imparting a strong work ethic, and making them good stewards of their wealth.

Kids, Wealth, and Consequences enlightens high-net-worth parents about the unique issues they need to explore. The book addresses the ”hard” financial issues, such as investing and estate planning, as well as the “soft” emotional issues relating to values, family, and communication. Morris and Pearl detail strategies and techniques to help parents raise children who appreciate and know how to manage the wealth they inherit.

Richard Morris spent many years working for his family’s multimillion dollar business, and learned firsthand the challenges of business ownership and family wealth.

Jayne Pearl is an experienced journalist who writes about families, family businesses, and money.

MY THOUGHTS:

“Kids Wealth and Consequences” is a book about investing and preparing your kids to handle money in the future.  It is a book that focuses more on parents who have money already and how they are going to handle their kids financial future.  Now even though I am middle-class and my husband, with no huge nestegg to leave our kids, I still was able to benefit from this book.  If you are planning on leaving your kids money, are considered wealthy, or you came from money, then this book will probably really benefit you.

The book covers how to talk to your kids about money you have and how to involve them so they become financially-responsible adults.  Even if you don’t have a lot of money, it is still important to involve your kids in how to spend wisely, be charitable, and prepare for the unexpected.  The book has tons of great charts and a checklist to think about at each chapter beginning.  The end of each chapter asks the reader to think about the questions in the checklist again to make sure you got everything from the chapter.  I really liked all the real stories from investment planners and other experts. The book in general just puts things into perspective and gives great conversation topics and strategies to think about. 

I definitely want my boys to become financially responsible adults and be able to survive on their own.  I know too many people who spend too much money, can’t handle the debt they already have, and were basically never taught to handle money.  I want to teach my boys to spend wisely and save their money.  My husband and I may not be planning on leaving them a huge nestegg but I want them to know what to do with money.

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