What should you do when your grown kid can’t handle their finances?

Check out Kristi’s advice in this Nerdwallet article!

 

What should you do when your grown kid can’t handle their finances?

“Parents want to help their kids — it’s what we do. When those kids are adults, though, our help can hurt.

Financial planners and credit counselors see plenty of examples. The grown son who lost a job, moved home and stopped looking for work. The daughter who constantly mismanaged her checking account — and turned to payday lenders when parents stopped covering her overdrafts. The father working into his 70s to support spendthrift children in their 40s and 50s.

Kristi Sullivan, a certified financial planner in Denver, once worked with an elderly couple whose offspring constantly turned to them for help.

“The clients couldn’t understand why their grandchildren had all the latest iPads and phones, but when a car or home repair came up, their adult children always had to ask them for money,” Sullivan said.”

 

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