Choking On The Silver Spoon
Gary W. Buffone, Ph.D.
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2003 Simplon Press
ISBN: 0974653500

Keeping your kids, healthy, wealthy, and wise in a land of plenty.

•  Have you ever felt your kids were spoiled or ungrateful?
•  Are your children overly focused on material possessions?
•  Do your kids really understand the value of money & how hard it is to earn it?
•  Are you concerned about your children's initiative & level of achievement?
•  Do you worry that your kids won't be able to make it on their own?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you're not alone. While many parents, just like you, know how to succeed financially, they are still left with nagging concerns about how their prosperity will affect their children. Choking On The Silver Spoon offers a lively new program based on the Five Immutable Laws of Financial Parenting, practical principles to guide your every decision when handling your kids & money.

Filled with valuable self-assessment tools & corrective prescriptions, Choking On The Silver Spoon is a timely, compassionate guide to helping you raise happy, well-adjusted & financially secure children, no matter what their age or stage in life.

Poor little rich girl -- how our hearts ache to have such woes! Not an iota of concern about where the money will come from to pay the bills; they can have anything they desire, & they'll never really have to worry about a job or career, so why are rich kids such brats?

Gary Buffone sets out to tell us in a readable & engaging guide which covers:
When Wealth Cripples: The Monetarily Mangled; Why Parents Worry; Recognizing the Silver Spoon Syndrome; Is Your Child a Silver-Spooner?; The Rising Tide of Wealth in America, & more.

Then off we go into Money Can't Buy Them Love & Curing the Plague of Prosperity until we come to The Five Immutable Laws of Financial Parenting:
•  of Necessity
•  of Loving Limits
•  of Reciprocity
•  of Fiscal Responsibility
•  of Example.

Until in Part Three you'll learn about Living the Laws from Cradle to Grave.

While Choking On The Silver Spoon is written for rich parents, anyone with money & children can benefit from what Gary Buffone has to teach. & the way he does it is clearly & cleanly, with liberal doses of humor.

If you have ever wanted to explain to your kids (& yourself!) what money is & what it can & cannot do, then Choking On The Silver Spoon: keeping your kids healthy, wealthy and wise in a land of plenty, is a good place to start.

Gary W. Buffone is a leading advisor to the affluent & has been cited on psychology/money issues in Money Magazine, Worth, CNN Money, CBS MarketWatch, The Business Journal, & MSN Money, to name a few. As a consulting psychologist & Director of the Family Business Center at the Byron Harless Group, he regularly consults with family-owned & other companies on a range of workplace issues. He is author of over 25 publications.

More from Gary W. Buffone: The Myth of Tomorrow: Seven Keys to Living the Life You Want Today
Do It Now: 1001 Things to Do Before You Check Out, & more.

Do catch my Interview with Gary W. Buffone, I think you'll learn a thing or two!
(05/09/04)

Rebecca