Free Money For Kids at BMO until May31/11!

Most of the community here at IncredibleDad.com are parents and if you’re a parent, you know that kids ain’t cheap!

So you have to like it when a Bank is giving YOU money for a change!

Read on to find out how you can get your child some free money from BMO Bank of Montreal until April 30th and teach them about money, saving and bank accounts at the same time!  Bonus! Read the rest of this entry »

Review of Focacia’s – Ajax & Four Tips to Help Teach Your Kids About Money

One Sunday evening, Book Boy decided he wanted to take the family to dinner!  Giddy-up! Of course, what ensued was a 20 minute financial lesson on how much eating out really costs and what restaurants were within his financial reach.  After ruling out Montana’s (too expensive) and some breakfast places (all closed), we ended up at a relatively new Italian fast food restaurant called Focacia’s.  Find out if the restaurant lived up to its motto (Italian Fast Casual) and discover some great tips to help teach your kids about money! Read the rest of this entry »

Five Tips to Help Your Kids Get Better Grades.

A “B” or not a “B”. That was the question my wife asked me this week when Book Boy came home with a “B” on a Social Studies assignment.

Clean Mom takes great interest in our kids’ grades as she’s the one who works hard with them on their homework.   (I merely contributed the superior genes from which our kids were created … nurture or nature, that’s another discussion…)  This got me to thinking about what else we could do to help Book Boy and Ballet Girl excel in school.  After much research, here are the five tips that I believe will help your kids get better grades. Read the rest of this entry »

Three Easy Ways To Reduce Costs and Save Money

As many of us represent the Ultimate  Guardians of the Family Treasure Hoard (i.e. meager sums left in the bank account after all bills have been paid and all childrens activity costs have been debited…ouch…), it is up to us to find new and inventive ways to make our dollars go farther.

In that vein, here are three easy ways to start saving money and show the family how Incredible you really are! Read the rest of this entry »