You know that shiny hot rod or new pair of shoes you just had to have but couldn't really afford? Well be careful, your spending habits could pass down to your kids. Junior Achievement of the Heartland is pushing parents to open up about money management and they have the programs to make the process a little easier.
Do you ever feel like as soon as that paycheck comes your money's burning a whole in your pocket? Well you're not alone and while splurging every once in awhile is okay, Junior Achievement of the Heartland president Barbara VenHorst said impulse spending could get you in trouble
"It's really easy to get off the beaten path and be spending money in a way that you shouldn't be. It's really hard to learn that in the real world because it has really bad consequences" VenHorst said.
She said kids tend to mirror those spending choices and in a struggling economy the younger generation is having doubts. VenHorst said in a recent Junior Achievement poll only 56 percent of kids thought they would be able to make more than their parents.
"Our country has been based on the idea that every generation is going to be in better financial shape than the one before them so when slightly more than half think that's the case, it's a sad direction we're headed." VenHorst said.
But you can help kids stay on track. Junior Achievement offers online programs to show the ins and out's of money management.
"Habits are hard to break and if you can get good habits started when they're young it's going to make life so much easier" VenHorst said.
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Royal Wedding: Inside the Ceremony With India Hicks, Bridesmaid to Princess Diana
A royal wedding might look like a scene from a fairy tale, but military precision is the name of the game behind the scenes.
Quite literally not a stone remains unturned: Believe it or not, even the cobblestones outside of Westminster Abbey have been vacuumed.
ABC's Barbara Walters was granted an exclusive interview recently with India Hicks, who was 13 in 1981 when her godfather, Prince Charles, asked her to be his bridesmaid.
Hicks still has her bridesmaids dress. It is almost a replica of Lady Diana's dress.
"It is a relation … same color, same fabric," she told ABC News. "A lot of petticoats, a lot of lace, a lot of bows. Very painful when you're a little tomboy."
Although she didn't like that much at the time, looking back, Hicks said, "Now, I see the romance in it."
So what was Diana wearing on the morning of her wedding day?
"She turned up in a pair of jeans," Hicks said. "I have this lasting impression of Diana with a diamond tiara on top of her head, dressed in jeans below while they fitted the tiara to see what it would look like."
We heard last week that Kate's five-room suite at the Goring Hotel, where she will stay the night before the wedding, has a waterproof flat-screen television.
And it turns out Diana was watching the television as she got dressed.
"She was very intrigued by it," Hicks said. "For her, it was so new to see herself on television. Can you imagine? I mean her whole life going before her eyes and she kept pushing everybody out of the way; move, she'd say."
So what did the little bridesmaid think when she saw Diana in that dress that has become so iconic?
"I thought; a princess. She was the bride; all brides have that sense of being the center of attention," Hicks said. "But she had that star quality."
As bridesmaid, India had the job of managing that famous train that stretched a record-breaking 25 feet.
"The job wasn't going right," Hicks said. But Diana was sympathetic, "and turned round and just said 'Do your best.'"
And so India navigated her way up the aisle in front of a global audience of about 750 million people.
"I was thinking my shoes hurt, they're pinching," Hicks said, "and it was a long way down that red carpet to the altar. But there was an aura about that day."
Quite literally not a stone remains unturned: Believe it or not, even the cobblestones outside of Westminster Abbey have been vacuumed.
ABC's Barbara Walters was granted an exclusive interview recently with India Hicks, who was 13 in 1981 when her godfather, Prince Charles, asked her to be his bridesmaid.
Hicks still has her bridesmaids dress. It is almost a replica of Lady Diana's dress.
"It is a relation … same color, same fabric," she told ABC News. "A lot of petticoats, a lot of lace, a lot of bows. Very painful when you're a little tomboy."
Although she didn't like that much at the time, looking back, Hicks said, "Now, I see the romance in it."
So what was Diana wearing on the morning of her wedding day?
"She turned up in a pair of jeans," Hicks said. "I have this lasting impression of Diana with a diamond tiara on top of her head, dressed in jeans below while they fitted the tiara to see what it would look like."
We heard last week that Kate's five-room suite at the Goring Hotel, where she will stay the night before the wedding, has a waterproof flat-screen television.
And it turns out Diana was watching the television as she got dressed.
"She was very intrigued by it," Hicks said. "For her, it was so new to see herself on television. Can you imagine? I mean her whole life going before her eyes and she kept pushing everybody out of the way; move, she'd say."
So what did the little bridesmaid think when she saw Diana in that dress that has become so iconic?
"I thought; a princess. She was the bride; all brides have that sense of being the center of attention," Hicks said. "But she had that star quality."
As bridesmaid, India had the job of managing that famous train that stretched a record-breaking 25 feet.
"The job wasn't going right," Hicks said. But Diana was sympathetic, "and turned round and just said 'Do your best.'"
And so India navigated her way up the aisle in front of a global audience of about 750 million people.
"I was thinking my shoes hurt, they're pinching," Hicks said, "and it was a long way down that red carpet to the altar. But there was an aura about that day."
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