{"id":16610,"date":"2017-12-30T20:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T01:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=16610"},"modified":"2017-12-30T20:40:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T01:40:21","slug":"the-johnson-family-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=16610","title":{"rendered":"The Johnson Family Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/First-National-Bank-Dad-Foolproof\/dp\/1416534253\">The First National Bank of Dad<\/a> (which we have heard about, but have not actually read), Alan and I decided to offer the kids the option to put their money in the &#8220;bank&#8221; and earn some interest.\u00a0 It&#8217;s something Alan and I have discussed in the past, but just brought it up with the kids today.\u00a0 Their &#8220;save&#8221; envelopes were getting pretty full, so I suggested we deposit the money into their 529 College Savings accounts, which then lead to further discussions of banking, which led to this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16609\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snapchat-5111212964107743494410904024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16609\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16609\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snapchat-5111212964107743494410904024-281x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snapchat-5111212964107743494410904024-281x500.jpg 281w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snapchat-5111212964107743494410904024-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snapchat-5111212964107743494410904024-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snapchat-5111212964107743494410904024-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snapchat-5111212964107743494410904024.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I may be breaking some space\/time continuum by posting a Snap of a screenshot onto a blog!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The kids both agreed that their &#8220;save&#8221; money should go towards college, and they both liked the idea of earning interest.\u00a0 Alan said &#8220;When you are ready to start a family bank account, you can create a spreadsheet in Google Docs and share it with me and mom.&#8221;\u00a0 Both kids immediately grabbed their computers!\u00a0 :)\u00a0 I guess they were ready!\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how it goes.\u00a0 Hopefully it doesn&#8217;t break the ACTUAL Johnson family bank account!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the book The First National Bank of Dad (which we have heard about, but have not actually read), Alan and I decided to offer the kids the option to put their money in the &#8220;bank&#8221; and earn some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=16610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-16610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16615,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions\/16615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}