Paul Ferraresi

By: Paul Ferraresi

Over the years I have met and observed thousands of people and each and every last one of them say they want some improvement in certain areas of their lives. In fact, most of them flat out confessed that they hated certain situations they were in. But after further evaluations, I discovered that they weren’t willing to do anything about it. It seemed to be good enough for them to just sit there and wallow in their pain, anguish and misery. Read the rest of this entry »

The inner life of an adolescent is wondering: Who am I now? Who will I be in the future? How can I develop skills to handle everyday challenges, problems, and decisions? As parents, you have an opportunity to help guide your children through the ‘Tween (9 to 12) and teen years to a responsible adulthood, learning how to relate to money in healthy ways. “Tweens and teens are all ears and eager to learn about the provocative world of money and how to make money work to their benefit. But by the time they reach middle- and high school age, few, if any, have actually learned about the power of good money management from there own parents. Most parents don’t talk to their children about money. In fact, in many homes the only message the kids get about money is one that says, “In our home, we don’t talk about money, and in our home we don’t talk about the fact that we don’t talk about money!” Even in families that occasionally talk about money, parents usually don’t explicitly teach their children how to manage money. Read the rest of this entry »