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What a great tool to help teach your children the responsibility of money. I got so many nuggets to apply with my family and for myself. I wish I had read this when my oldest was smaller!

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This book contains solid parenting advice. It is packed with practical money management skills from a biblical perspective. While I do not have kids of my own, I have 4 nephews. There are gems here I can use with them.

Thanks to NetGalley for this free ARC in exchange of an honest review.

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While the book wasn’t exactly revolutionary, it was Biblically solid. I believe the author used his own experience of mismanaging money in his young adulthood as a springboard to prevent his children from repeating his mistakes. He presents a typical give, save, spend model fit youngsters, but he offers more challenging money managing tasks as the children mature. I felt like part 1 & 2 were the strengths of the book. The dive into various temperaments in the last section was much weaker in my opinion.. Overall, there were some good takeaways for parents.

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Trusted by matt Bell is a biblical look at financial management intended for parents to use to have the tools to teach their kids but also would be a good way for families as a whole to get their finances on track. It's not revolutionary or mind blowing - which is probably good - but its gentle wisdom makes an excellent guide. Rooted in scripture, practical examples, some hands on activities and common sense, there's a lot of value in these pages and I'd actually be happy to get my hands on a hard copy to go through again with my husband as we start having more in depth conversations about this stuff with our kiddos.

Thanks netgalley and focus on the family publishing for my e arc in exchange for my honest review.

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Families that are interested in financial education and heavy references to bible verses will enjoy this book. Even if you are looking at the book from a secular viewpoint, the author has quite a bit of solid information and practical parenting advice. I particularly appreciated that the book referenced Carol Dweck and Angela Duckworth, two researchers that have great advice.

There were features that I didn't agree with, such as his reference to Dave Ramsay's snowball effect when paying down debt, although he doesn't credit Ramsay with this theory. I also felt that he gave bad advice when recommending Christian alternatives to insurance where members all pitch in money to "share medical financial burdens". Even though I disagree with this as being a financially solvent option, I would have appreciated his offering a fair and balanced option of other insurance plans. He did not.

I think overall if one uses this in addition to other financial reference books, it can offer a good perspective

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The book Trusted by Matt Bell is about money management with some spirituality and how Christianity as mentioned about money management and verses related to it,

The author has mentioned how he overspent and used money before getting the insight to go in the right direction and describes how he started teaching money management. This book is not only to help us with teaching kids about finance, saving, and investing, but we can also learn and practice from it. The way the author says how he implemented this with children was so nice to hear.

It was really helpful to read for me and made me remember my childhood and teenage and how our parents thought us budgeting and made me know the household expenses they had given allowances to and said us to save and use them wisely.

The writing style was so simple and each chapter discusses well about financial skills that are necessary and that can improve the behavior and mold the child well and make the right choices at the right time which can be helpful in life later and not fall into the cycle of spending more and having less.

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This is a fascinating parenting book, and while the target topic is financial stewardship and wisdom, it has a much more broad impact than that.

It truly helps you to be able to help your kids become responsible adults capable of long-range planning, building an attitude of generosity in more than just financial ways, and delayed gratification, which is an increasingly rare and helpful life skill!

The book is full of practical advice and how-to information. Each chapter ends with a concise recap of the chapter advice which you use as an index as well as a planning guide. There are suggestions for applicable verses for you and your kids to memorize.

I need to get ahold of a hardcopy because I can see the need to refer to it over and over again through the years ahead.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley and chose to review it here. All thoughts are my own.

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What a great resource in teaching our children biblical wisdom regarding money and finances. This book is filled with practical, down-to-earth strategies and solutions to our consumer driven world. I highly recommend this to parents looking for ways to teach their children a biblical approach to money.

Thanks to NetGalley for this free ARC in exchange of an honest review.

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Although this book isn’t really for me as I’m an atheist, it definitely has some important lessons in it regarding how to be more smart with your finances and how to pass these lessons onto your children. I feel like I definitely learned some things from this book in different areas such as the importance of investing, how to be more generous with your money and how different temperaments can affect your attitudes towards money. If you’re planning on bringing up your children with the importance of God and teachings from the Bible then this would be a good read for you with some great lessons throughout.

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I didn’t realize how religious this was, leaning heavily on the Bible and parables. That should be made more clear from the synopsis, although I see a few religious references. At the first section, I was expecting to jump into working with kids, but it basically started giving me a very basic money lesson. To be clear, if I’m trying to teach my kids about money, I likely have a stronger background already and don’t need a lesson on basics. The marketing for this book isn’t in alignment. It’s more like “clueless on finances? Get it together and teach your kids along the way.”

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I wish my parents had this book. I grew up in a home and a culture where we dont think about saving or honoring God with what He has trusted us. So in this point, home stay mom of 3 boys, I am really struggling about this. I am so thankful for this book. I am learning how to view and set my financial priorities with a biblical view. I am feeling equipped to teach my kids how to handle money and the resources God has given them. Matt include so many examples, activities and conversations you can have with your kids. Highly recommended!!!

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