Weekly Family Finance Picks (#25)

We’re constantly scouring the Internet looking for articles related to family finances and teaching kids good personal finance habits. You can visit the FamZoo delicious page to see our ever growing list of family finance bookmarks. Each week, we pick our favorite articles from the previous week and post them here.

It was a quiet week out on the Internet for family finance articles with people gearing up for and then recovering from the holiday in the US. So, we’ll go with just one pick that’s in keeping with the spirit of Thanksgiving:

Making Gratitude the New Attitude

by Andrea Reiser on Motherhood Later...Than Sooner Blog

I love the notion of expressing gratitude for the little things in life — like playing catch with a football on a crisp Fall afternoon. Taking the time to instill that concept in your kids is even better.

Andrea’s guest post shares 11 terrific suggestions for “promoting an attitude of gratitude” in your kids (and yourself). Check ’em out here.

And, if you’d like to dig deeper, check out her new book too.