Like water dripping from a leaky faucet, a kid's constant nagging can be annoying and almost impossible to ignore, but giving in can have real financial consequences.

Whether your child repeats a demand nine or 90 times, many parents eventually cave ... understandably.

Sometimes, the nagging works simply because kids...

I take a sip of chilled Sauvignon Blanc while gazing at the sprawling vineyards below my balcony. With the sun on my face, my husband and I dig into some fresh fruit from the local farmers' market -- crisp pears, figs and goat cheese.

A warm breeze flutters the gauzy...

If you have an ex -- which most of us do -- you've probably received the "You're better off without them," speech from a friend.

"You're too smart/attractive/cool for that person," said friend will tell you. "You always hated their style/dog/way they chew, anyway."

"And now that you've broken up,"...

Written by Lisa M. Gerry for Learnvest

Five years ago, Bea Johnson and her husband and two sons were looking for a home closer to the restaurants, shops and school in their coastal California town.

During the year they spent house hunting, the family of four moved into...

"In March, the whole company is going to San Francisco for a week," my husband Andreas told me one night last January.

We'd been living in Copenhagen since 2008. I didn't have a job lined up when I finished graduate school in the U.S., and since Andreas did, I'd moved...

Several years ago, I started a job that, for all intents and purposes, was my dream job. At least, it's what I spent four years of college and two years of internships preparing for. This was my big break, and I was not going to squander it.

I'm of the...

When I was young, my sister and I would sit in the den for hours playing with dolls. Our Barbies were flight attendants, ballerinas and nurses, among other stereotypically female professions.

Of course this was (ahem) a couple years ago.

These days, kids don't take stereotypes sitting down. Take, for...

While nowadays, everyone buzzes about how expensive weddings can be, it turns out the price tag on one's nuptials is a mere pittance compared to the cost of remaining single.

In The Atlantic Monthly's "The High Price of Being Single in America," authors Lisa Arnold and Christina Campbell...

Since President Obama proposed making high-quality preschool education available to every American four-year-old in his 2013 State of the Union address, the debate over the benefits of preschool has been thrown into the national spotlight.

As every parent knows, preschool must all too often be purchased for a...

When you have a family, spring break is a little less MTV and a little more Sesame Street.  In other words: You get to relax, but with your kids in tow.

Luckily, we've uncovered these five fun destinations for family-friendly spring break trips in locales all across the country (and...

Qu'est-ce que vous faites de votre profil LinkedIn?

Vous n'y jetez un coup d'œil que de temps en temps, quand vous recevez une invitation? Vous l'avez lié à votre compte Twitter? Vous ne vous rappelez plus très bien quand vous vous êtes inscrit?

Aussi pratique soit-il de rassembler vos comptes...

There is no shame in being broke, theoretically. But that hasn't stopped me from feeling horrible shame at how broke my family is. 

Then I feel guilty for feeling that shame. After all, if I feel angry at myself for not earning more, I must also be angry at...

What do you do with your LinkedIn profile?

Do you check it only every once in a while when a connection request comes through? Have you linked it to your Twitter account? Did you never quite remember to sign up in the first place?

As much as it's convenient to...

I'm torn over whether I should sign my 6-year-old up for dance. 

I know she would love it, but frankly, I find the $150 monthly price tag a tad overwhelming. Do I have an extra couple grand a year to commit, or can I just have her play at the...

"I'm sorry -- we've actually made an offer to another candidate."

It's a phrase any job hunter hates to hear, especially when the days drag on after your initial interview, and you begin to wonder, "Where did I go wrong?"

Of course, most of us already know the tried-and-true etiquette for...

Did you ever win a race or a spelling bee? Do you remember how you felt?

Research has shown that these "winning" moments may have a lasting effect: In a study of over 1,200 successful women, psychologist Sylvia Rimm of the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine found...

Television. School. Osmosis.

These are just a few of the ways that many parents would prefer that their children learn about finances -- as long as they don't have to bring up the sticky subject themselves.

In fact, according to a study conducted by LearnVest and TD Ameritrade, less than...

Growing up, my grandmother was a master seamstress, and I always had beautiful clothes without ever having to pay for them.

My taste for fine garments didn't change as I got older, but it was a shock when I had to begin paying for them myself. I can still hear...

Tall, dark, handsome... and debt-free?

The modern dater includes fiscal responsibility in his or her list of criteria -- and women are especially picky.

According to a CreditCards.com survey, 55% of women (versus 37% of men) would cut off a relationship if they found out their partner was...

Several years ago, my life was the picture of success.

I had a high-level executive position in a wealth management office in Philadelphia. I lived outside of the city, in the affluent suburb where I had been raised.

Every day, I woke up in the dark, roused my two young...