Allie Beth Stuckey

Next to the Bible, what's the best finance book?

Well, I like Dave Ramsey's Money Makeover, I think, as a basic finance book, especially for a lot of young couples, even older couples.

No matter how old you are, some people, no matter how old they are, haven't figured out how to manage their money yet or haven't been taught the principles.

I would do that.

Another way that I help people think about finance, another book is called Rich Dad, Poor Dad, done by Robert Kiyosaki.

Now, I don't

necessarily agree with everything he says out there in all of his books, but this is a good fundamental book on the way you think about creating assets and how you think about finances and what have you.

How do I encourage this generation of parents to help their kids?

You know, I got some good advice, and I'm thinking more about adult children right now, financially.

I got some good advice one time, and one of my mentors, I was talking about, my kids were entering the phase where they were getting ready to be married and buying homes and things like that, their kids starting to school.

and uh you know our oldest son we were only 21 years old when justin was born so we were very young so he you know he he's only 21 years younger than i am so i'm 65 and so he's 44 okay and so he's you know if if if if we wait until lisa and i pass away and you know who knows when that will be uh

then he's going to be pretty far up there before he would get any inheritance at all.

And his kids may already be out of college, who knows?

And so what this gentleman told me, he says, look, you need to help your kids when they need it the most, if you can afford to do it and that they're good stewards.

And so that's what we've done.

We've tried to help our kids along the way as they've needed, helped them buy their first house.

I don't think anything wrong with that.

We've helped, you know, help where we can with the private school tuition to go to a Christian school.

We help with that where they need it.

And that's what we try to do to help them during the time that they need it now.