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The road to investing in a business with your child is pocked with pitfalls.
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One way to share your financial information with your grown children is to hire them to input it into a financial software program.
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Some parents get stuck in the “critic” phase of child rearing–and can’t even give it up long enough to praise a grown child’s accomplishments.
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Letting your grown child treat you to something–be it a cup of coffee or tickets to a ballgame–helps them feel financially independent.
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Friends lost almost all their money when they invested with Bernie madoff. Telling their kids about it was the hard part.
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Is there such a thing as grandparent overkill? Or, for that matter, under kill? Our friends who have two sons and six grandchildren living in two different cities have yet to miss a grandchild's birthday–even if it means flying across the country for a weekend after they've just spent a week vacationing with that family.…
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Parents can help fund their grown children’s Roth IRAs to build both the habit of saving and the children’s retirement kitty.
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Through their careers and interests, our grown children open jup new areas of interest for us as well.