Before reading a book with children, parents may want to read it first and think about the money ideas presented. Then, when reading with their children, talk about these ideas. Each book listed in the Money on the Bookshelf Bibliography deals with some special ideas about money. Our resources include things like skills, time, and money. When we choose what to use to get the things we need, we are allocating our resources.
Many times there are different ways to do things or different ways to use resources.
Decision making means making a choice among what to do or what to use. There are always things we want to do or to have. Goal setting is choosing something to work for. Sometimes we need to choose among several things. Prioritizing is arranging things in order of their importance to us.