Welcome to
the Family Fool

Welcome to The Family Fool! Gather the kids and the cats and crowd 'round the monitor.

We've carefully blended ingredients from our existing forum with some new, specialized content just for families. If you're a seasoned Fool, you probably recognize -- and have mastered -- our 13-step epistle on investing Foolishly. You might have even used our advice on buying a car. Now it's time to put the kids to work.

Each week we'll add ideas on teaching the tikes about companies whose products they use, how to take pieces of allowance and invest it in stocks, and how to determine the value of a business.

Beyond that, Fools can pick up some pointers from other parents on budgeting, saving, investing, preparing for children's tuition, and handling Wise-cracking kids. Both new and seasoned Fools will want to check out these features on family folly:

*Is Your Family Foolish? Take our
short quiz to find out.

*When it comes to investing, kids
have the biggest advantage -- time.
In How Money Grows they can see
how compounding works.

*Each week we'll run a Family Fribble,
a lighthearted look at money/investing
matters by full-time Fools and Foolish
readers like you. Send us your Family
Fribble and we'll make you -- or your
kid -- a star.

*We sent an intern down to our archives
to gather Family Fribbles written since the
dawn of Fooldom.

*Share your secrets, ask questions, and
talk with us on our Managing Your Finances
message board manned by resident moms,
dads, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and
the occasional pet.

And drop TMF School a note if you have comments, questions, or flames.

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