NGPF was recently featured in MoneyWatch article:

“When my daughter graduated elementary school and got her first phone, I took the chance to dive into the phone bill,” says Tim Ranzetta, founder of NextGenPersonalFinance.org, which offers personal-finance educational materials for high-school and college students.

With his daughter, now age 12, Ranzetta emphasized that data usage drives the total monthly cellphone bill, which is why it is worth using Wi-Fi networks whenever they are available.

The article lists nine everyday situations that are “learning opportunities:”  I have listed NGPF activities that can help in the learning process:

• allowance
• cell phone bills
  • NGPF Blog post: Who has the best cell phone plan?
• credit reports
  • NGPF Activity idea: How To Make Credit Scores Engaging
• ATMs
• bank accounts
  • NGPF Activity: Select a Checking Account
• grocery shopping
• auto policy
  • Coming soon!
• dinner-time conversations
  • NGPF Blog post: Teach students to talk to parents about money
  • NGPF Blog post: What do parents think about paying for college

About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.