Hello All I thought you would appreciate hearing from our resident Child Psychologist Jason Bantjes regarding his opinion on how best to use the Ka-Ching! Business Parenting course. FAMILY UNITS ARE BUILT ON RELATIONSHIPS. A healthy family is built on good relationships. Maintaining good relationships with one's children is not always easy and requires conscious effort and skill. There is much that you as a parent can do to foster good relationships with your children. This includes: February 13, 2006: Issue 6 Family units are built on relationships. By Jason Bantjes. FREE downloads available to you right now Visit Our Newsroom for latest articles Tell Us What You Think! * Making a conscious effort to build and maintain a sound relationship with your children; * Making time to spend with them; and * Spending time with them engaged in activates, playing games, having fun and helping them acquire new skills. Click here to read the rest of Jason's article. Case study: "I have spent time over the Christmas break going through the pocket money side of Ka-Ching and it is working well. To add to all this I have set out to make a four compartment money box for each of the kids, they will only have access to the one that has their spending money. The other three have locks on them and are emptied when we buy investments, give to charity and deposit into the bank. It should work well. My son has now got into planting palm tree seeds and is now selling them off to save up for computer games. (He wants to program games when he gets a little older)." "I have also added a further aspect to the pocket money and I have told both my kids that at the end of every month when we have our finance meeting that anything that is left in savings I add a further 10% to their savings. My daughter is going great guns with this and is actually adding unspent pocket money to this box, my son however is in debt with me. I have let him do this to learn about the problems of paying this back. I think this course is as good for them as it is for me in helping me understand my kids. I especially like the idea that this is a family project, more of this is need in the family unit." Maybe you can help me, I sometimes find he is becoming a little too obsessed with money and always wants immediate gratification. He is very headstrong and has a mind of his own that is very quick. How have you found responses from other parents? Grant Sinclair - Parent, 16 January 2006 Its always exciting when a plan starts coming together and hearing how the 'Ka-Ching! Families' are progressing. In Grant's case, I think his enthusiasm is admirable, and I love his 4 compartment savings box, and the 'Income Generating Asset' his son is investing in by planting palm trees! As far as helping with some advice regarding his concern when he points out that sometimes his son is ".......becoming a little too obsessed with money and always wants immediate gratification" - I asked the co-author Midge Hilton-Green to give his response to this challenge. To read Midge's response, please Click here for forums: Case study: "For me it has always been a struggle to get my daughter, Lindsay aged 8, to do her daily chores and it is difficult for me to enforce these as I work long hours. Through the Ka-Ching! programme, I have implemented a Do-It-Daily Pocket Money System. Every morning I leave a list on the fridge of chores that Lindsay must complete that day and later I check that they are done when I get home in the evening. Payment is only given if each and every one of the chores is completed. I have been astounded by the results: Lindsay seldom slips up on her chores these days, because she knows that there is a reward in it for her. This has also helped Lindsay develop a sense of responsibility." Forum Post Click here for more! FREE DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE TO YOU RIGHT NOW Please feel free to download a sample of forms from the Ka-Ching! Business Parenting course after filling in the simple online registration form. These forms make up a very small part the course, but will give you an idea of how it all works. Remember, anyone can download them! After the simple registration process, you can start: - Empowering your child to be better equipped to cope with the challenging world of work - Interacting effectively with your child - Building a closer family bond To get these FREE downloads, to help you start right away visit our website on http://www.ka-chingworld.com/recources/ VISIT OUR NEWSROOM FOR OUR LATEST ARTICLES   Did you miss an article? Want to review an article you really enjoyed? 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