Pigs Can FLY


An hour in a 1st/2nd grade classroom...amazing!

If you have not had the privilege of spending time with 7, 8 and 9 year-olds lately, you are missing out! I taught the first two segments of the Junior Achievement Program for 2nd graders:

Posted May 12 2008 by Linda Keith

Pigs and Kids...Start your Engines!

'How many of you would like to start a business when you grow up?'I did not get quite as many raised hands as I did for: 'How many of you would like to be rich?'Then

Posted May 11 2008 by Linda Keith

#4 What you DON'T want the kids learning at school...and what you do!

Continuing the report from the Money WI$E Women Conference in February, Number Four in our 'short list' of influences on our kids sense of money is what they learn, and don't learn, at school. I don't

Posted Mar 10 2008 by Linda Keith

#3: Media. How to 'channel' the impact this has on our kids and money

The third major influence on how kids learn about money that we came up with at the conference on MoneyWI$E Women was the media. We threw into that bucket TV, Internet, Video games and Computer

Posted Mar 06 2008 by Linda Keith

#2 Friends and Peers...what impact can we have?

At the session on educating kids about money at the MONEYWI$E Women Conference, the second pick for how kids learn about money was their friends and peers. Strategy 1: When kids are younger, engage them

Posted Mar 03 2008 by Linda Keith

#1: Family...4 strategies to be sure they learn what you want them to learn

At the MONEYWI$E Women Conference our session on 'Teaching kids about money' listed Parents and other family members as the number one way kids learn. So...what to do about that. How effective is it when

Posted Feb 28 2008 by Linda Keith

Raising money wi$e kids...4 ways they get their info and what we can do about it

As part of my work with Pigs Can FLY, the national campaign for financial literacy I founded, I was a speaker yesterday on 'Raising MoneyWi$e Kids' at the MONEYWI$E Women™ Conference in Tacoma. Founded by

Posted Feb 24 2008 by Linda Keith