In today’s difficult economic times, families are faced with many financial struggles. Due to the current strain on many budgets, families are looking to save and spend more quality time together. Families of multiples can certainly understand the power of stretching a dollar when having to provide for more than one child the same age. A resource for parents wanting their children to learn the valuable lessons of saving and charity is the book, Three Cups.
Three Cups is based on the parenting philosophy of Tony Townsley. While raising their children, Tony and his wife, wanted their children to learn about money and create positive habits that would continue throughout their lives. Three Cups portrays the story of a child receiving a weekly allowance and dividing the allowance into three cups: spending, savings, and charity.
Three Cups explains in an easy format how a child, who equally divides a weekly allowance into three categories, is able to save money, purchase a desired item, and be able to give back to the community. The principal of the book teaches children the foundations of saving, healthy spending, and charitable giving. Three Cups is beautifully illustrated and contains a helpful parenting guide for parents wishing to implement the Three Cups system with their children.
As a special gift to all readers, two copies of Three Cups are being offered as a giveaway. To enter, please leave a comment on why Three Cups would be beneficial to your life below this posting. Please ensure that an email address is posted in your comments. Two winners will be randomly selected from the qualified comments received by Friday, April 30, 2010, at midnight EST. Winner must respond within 72 hours or another winner will be drawn.
Three Cups can be reviewed on their website at http://www.3cupsbook.com/
This book would make an ideal gift for parents, grandparents, and educators wanting to share positive viewpoints on earning and saving income.
Savings is such an important lesson for children to understand. Great book for my family.
I have been trying to teach my children the value of saving and giving to others so this book will be a great tool for them to understand these principals.
This would be a great book for my grandchildren! It would be an effective manner for them to understand these life lessons. Children need to appreciate money and their parents work.
This would be a great book for my classroom to learn the concepts of proper spending, savings, and giving to others.
This will be a great book for my families’ library and to help my children with their spending habits.
Joscelyn, you always share such great information for parents and families. Three Cups is another example that will greatly benefit parents.
I would love to give this book to my sister and her family. She is having a hard time explaining proper spending and savings with her children…this book seems like it will really help put things in a child’s perspective.
I’am currently pregnant and I think this will be a great book to have in my home so I can be better prepared to share healthy money values with my child.
Great book that will affect how children feel about savings, spending, and giving back to the community.
Why do children get all the good stuff?! Three cups sounds like a valuable lesson for kids AND adults alike. What a great way to help us visualize the power of money. Savings, spending and charity. So simple. I think parents and children alike will benefit from this book. I’m going to find three cups as soon as I finish writing this and get started.
Great giveaway! This book would be great for my 10 year old daughter, who is now receiving an allowance for doing chores. She always wants to spend it right away, so I think this book would help explain to her about saving, etc.
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I have 3 little boys that we will need to teach about saving. unfortunatly the ecomony is not stable anymore and saving is a lesson they need to learn
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