{"id":1182,"date":"2009-05-06T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T04:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:12:40","slug":"godsbigblog-kids-and-money-saving-it-spending-it-sharing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/godsbigblog-kids-and-money-saving-it-spending-it-sharing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"GodsBigBlog: Kids and Money &#8212; Saving It, Spending It, Sharing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1186\" style=\"width: 141px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/05\/06\/godsbigblog-kids-and-money-saving-it-spending-it-sharing-it\/three-cups\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1186\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1186 \" title=\"three-cups-mark-st.-germain-april-willy\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/three-cups.webp\" alt=\"Three Cups, by Mark St. Germain, is illustrated by April Willy.\" width=\"141\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Three Cups,&#8221; a children&#8217;s book by Mark St. Germain and April Willy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a way to teach generosity and life-long <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/article\/money\/parentsandkids\/money_kids_giving\">charitable giving<\/a> to\u00a0the children in your family? Author Mark St.Germain and artist April Willy have a suggestion: The next time you give\u00a0your children an allowance, give each of them three cups. One for savings, one for spending &#8212; and one for charity.<\/p>\n<p>How much to put in each cup? Now, that should get everybody in the family talking. Let us know how the conversation goes at your house.<\/p>\n<p>Three Cups<em>, written by Mark St. Germain, illustrated by April Willy, 2007, Three Cups, LLC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[caption id=\"attachment_1186\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"141\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/05\/06\/godsbigblog-kids-and-money-saving-it-spending-it-sharing-it\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1186 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/three-cups.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a> Three Cups, by Mark St. Germain, is illustrated by April Willy.[\/caption]\n<p>Looking for a way to teach generosity and life-long charitable giving to the children in your family? Author Mark St.Germain and artist April Willy have a suggestion: Give them each three cups. <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/05\/06\/godsbigblog-kids-and-money-saving-it-spending-it-sharing-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,50],"tags":[174,175,176,151,177,178],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-openers","category-on-writing-reading","tag-alice-willy","tag-charity-and-children","tag-childrens-book-review","tag-kids-and-money","tag-mark-st-germain","tag-three-cups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52870,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/52870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}