You’re probably familiar with the financial advice that it’s more important to save for retirement than for your children’s college. And you know what? We agree that retirement savings are high priority. However, we also believe that saving for college sets expectations for your children that they can and will attend college. We’re dedicated to […]
We’ve made saving for college so easy; we can explain how in under a minute. Forget everything you need to know about saving for college. If you had a dollar for all of the future’s uncertainties, you could probably pay for college with cash. And with so many options and experts telling you what you […]
We’re a few days into the New Year, which means it’s time for a check in on your goal to save more for your children’s college. Perhaps you’re already realizing that it’s not enough just to make a resolution. To be successful, you also need to make a plan. Psychologists offer some good advice to […]
You’ve probably heard that when you purchase a Florida Prepaid plan, you “lock in” the cost of college and your Plan price. That is true, but what does it really mean? Like with many questions, there’s a simple answer and a more detailed answer. The simple answer is our favorite, because it feels good to […]
Why do Florida Prepaid and LEGOLAND® Florida Resort make great partners? Because we both want to help you build something special for your children! You don’t have to be a financial planner to save for college, and you don’t have to be an engineer to create a LEGO masterpiece. Just like LEGO sets come with […]
Becoming Florida’s Teacher of the Year was never on his radar. In fact, Dr. Dakeyan Chá Dré Graham had big plans to become an anesthesiologist and was concluding his major in microbiology at the University of Florida when he had a change of heart. “My high school band director had said, ‘No, you’re not going to […]
If you’re among the many parents who recently saw their children off for the first day of the new school year, you totally get how important teachers are. After all, for the next nine months, they’re with our children for eight hours a day – charged with growing their minds and building them up academically. […]
It’s hard to believe this is still the case in 2019, but studies confirm that parents are saving more for their sons than for their daughters for higher education. A Wall Street Journal article examined the results of two financial-industry polls conducted in 2017. According to the article, one study by T. Rowe Price looked […]
As we hit the halfway point of summer break and thoughts turn to “back to school,” how are your kids feeling about that? True excitement is pretty rare (and if so, lucky you!). But mixed emotions are a happy medium: Kids may dislike their free time ending and homework returning, but begrudgingly admit to looking […]
Why are we so hard on ourselves as parents? Perhaps it’s because we sense the sheer enormity of raising a human being from infancy to adulthood. We feel like our children arrive to us like lumps of clay, and it’s up to us to sculpt the next masterpiece. We look around to see how other […]
