{"id":1279,"date":"2016-06-18T14:25:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2016-06-18T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T19:25:27","slug":"have-you-written-a-money-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Have You Written a Money Letter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dear Reader,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Did you know that writing a simple &#8220;money&#8221; letter to your children will\u00a0have more of an impact on their spending habits than just telling them your thoughts and feelings about money?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week, why not think back to your biggest money successes and failures (these are often most helpful), put pen to paper and send your child a note that can have a deep and lasting effect on their lives? \u00a0If you&#8217;re lucky, they&#8217;ll listen to your advice and you might even find yourself featured in a book, like Gail Shearer did when her daughter Kimberly wrote the book, <em>Smart Mom, Rich Mom<\/em>, based on the money letter she received from her mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Need advice on just what to say? \u00a0Check out this article from the New York Times, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/18\/your-money\/the-money-letter-that-every-parent-should-write.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;_r=0\">The Money Letter That Every Parent Should Write<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Reader, Did you know that writing a simple &#8220;money&#8221; letter to your children will\u00a0have more of an impact on their spending habits than just telling them your thoughts and feelings about money? This week, why not think back to your biggest money successes and failures (these are often most helpful), put pen to paper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have You Written a Money Letter?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[661,75,663,660,664,657,318,469,658,361,659,662],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-personal-finances","tag-advice","tag-children","tag-failure","tag-father","tag-letter-writing","tag-money-letter","tag-mother","tag-new-york-times","tag-parent","tag-saving","tag-spending","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}