The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart about Money

Ron Lieber brings his trademark combination of brain power and empathy to one of the trickiest issues parents face. The Opposite of Spoiled is a thoughtful and often inspiring book that also delivers dozens of smart, practical tips for turning conversations about money into lessons about living. If you've got kids, want kids-or heck, have been a kid-read this book.

There's more of the philosophical than the methodological to this primer from New York Times columnist Lieber on helping children, especially those in the upper middle class, to approach financial matters with responsibility, generosity, and gratitude...Lieber's easygoing style will encourage parents to raise a new generation that's both confident and compassionate.

This engaging and important book breaks new ground by suggesting that the next generation deserves to be better at money than we are.

We want the best for our kids but worry about spoiling them. The solution is to teach them to use money and talk about it ourselves in a rational way. There is no one better at this than Ron Lieber and no better manual for doing it than this book.

Finally, an honest, modern, comprehensive, and nuanced book about kids and money. Parents report that conversations about money fill them with so much dread and confusion that they change the subject rather than dive in. The Opposite of Spoiled comes to the rescue.

Lieber focuses on values and virtues to encourage in children to ensure they will not be spoiled, including generosity, patience, and perseverance. Using those virtues, Lieber guides parents in conveying the value and significance of money and how to use it wisely, how to spend and save, how to give and invest. Parents will appreciate the sound advice and broad perspective Lieber offers on this important subject.