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Care for Your Retirement Cash - MarketWatch

Families need to communicate about money, especially when finances are uncertain, says Nathan Dungan, founder of financial counseling firm Share Save Spend. He talks with Money & Investing Editor Jonathan Burton about setting budgets and long-term goals.

Breaking Down the Holiday Budget - KARE 11

KARE 11's Julie Nelson sat down with financial expert Nathan Dungan to get some ideas on how to make a budget and stick to it.

Teaching Kids About Money – Working Mother

Share, save and spend is the approach Donna Collins Williams of Redwood City, CA, a nurse researcher at Stanford Cancer Center, teaches her kids when it comes to what to do with their allowance. It’s an approach she picked up from a lecture by financial guru Nathan Dungan, founder of Share Save Spend, a Minneapolis-based organization that advises young people and adults on finances.

Debit Cards Can Help Teens Budget – The Wall Street Journal

Be realistic about your teen's maturity, says Nathan Dungan, founder of counseling firm Share Save Spend, which teaches families about money matters. It may be that cash is more appropriate -- it's tangible and if you don't have it, you're out of luck.

Paydirt: Experts offer advice for college and beyond – Star Tribune

Nathan Dungan literally wrote the textbook on personal finance and speaks at colleges nationwide. What does he think is most important for students to understand? Themselves. "Know your money temperament ... the lens through which you view and do money," he said. If having money makes you want to spend it, it's best to know that and figure out a way that works for you to keep that natural tendency in check.

Money & Kids: How to become a financially savvy family – KARE11

KARE 11's Julie Nelson talks to Nathan Dungan, the founder of a money management coompany called Share Save Spend, about how you can prepare your family for financial sucess.

It's Time to Unspoil Your Kids - Money Magazine

"Parents are seeing the shortcomings of giving children everything they want," says Nathan Dungan, financial coach and author of "Prodigal Sons and Material Girls." For one thing, it's costly to cater to a child's every whim - a cost that's harder to bear in an economy of anxiety.

Twin Cities Public Television Enlists Expert Nathan Dungan for Financial Reporting on Almanac

Twin Cities Public Television (tpt) and nationally recognized personal finance expert Nathan Dungan, president and founder of Share Save Spend® are producing a series of reports for the weekly public affairs program Almanac. In the segments, Dungan will talk with a wide variety of people about how the current economic crisis is affecting them, the mistakes and successes they have had with money, and their plans and goals for the future. Planned topics include: financial literacy, hyper-consumerism, retirement, frugality and philanthropy.

Money 101: Professionals help teach financial responsibility – Finance and Commerce

"We're sending young people into the world with very little knowledge about how to manage money, how to make good choices about spending and saving," according to Nathan Dungan, found of Share Save Spend, a Minneapolis-based company that produces a wide variety of personal finance training materials for schools, workplaces and families.

Cents Sense - Cookie magazine

Your kids are (and should be) blissfully unaware of the economy’s ups and downs, but it’s still important to teach them the value of a dollar. We spoke to Nathan Dungan, founder of family-finance website sharesavespend.com, about age-appropriate toys, games, and lessons that can enrich your child’s understanding of money.

Saving Matters More Than Ever – Wall Street Journal

Live by example. Recession sales are everywhere, but you don't have to buy. "You're up against a consumer culture telling you to spend money you don't have," notes Mr. Dungan. "Make sure your actions support what you're saying."

Teaching Money Values in School – MarketWatch

Check out the MarketWatch story featuring Nathan’s presentation to high school seniors in Palo Alto, CA about the idea of money values.

Put Money in its Place – MarketWatch

In years past, most families would have put "develop healthy financial habits" on the "nice-to-do" list but certainly not on the "must-do" list.

St. Catherine's financial-literacy series proves timely – MinnPost.com

"Now, more than ever, we really need to pay attention to how we're doing money," says Nathan Dungan, founder and president of Share Save Spend, a Minneapolis-based organization that advises young people and adults on achieving what he calls Financial Sanity™. "There is no better time to learn about the positive steps you can take and do something hopeful."

Mad money: Credit card debt is bad for more than students’ pocketbooks – Minnesota Parent

Nathan Dungan, president and founder of Share Save Spend, offers essential tips for making money a regular topic in your home.

Talk with kids about a new approach – Winston-Salem Journal

Every January, many people have that realization that ‘Oh, wow, I really spent too much,'" said Nathan Dungan, the president of the financial-education organization Share Save Spend. "The default system is see money, spend money. At both ends of the spectrum, families that have really paid attention to their finances, they have a lot less money stress. They have a much easier time living within their means."

Money Lessons: From Wall Street To The Classroom – WCCO TV

Share Save Spend partnered with St. Louis Park High School for a financial planning week competition asking students how can Americans do a better job of living within their means?

Making Peace with Your Plastic – Wall Street Journal

One exercise to use, says Nathan Dungan, president of Share Save Spend, a Minneapolis-based firm providing values-based money education, "is when your ...

Borrowing from the Bank of Mom and Dad – MarketWatch

Do yourself and your family a favor and be specific. "Families will loosely call it a loan, but there's no parameters established before the loan is made, and that is fraught with problems," says Nathan Dungan, founder of Share Save Spend, a Minneapolis-based educational program that encourages families to practice healthy financial habits.

Five ways to prepare for a layoff – MarketWatch

"More than 230,000 Americans have lost their jobs so far this year, and the outlook isn't pretty. Maybe you work for a company that has announced cuts, and you expect to be among them. Or perhaps you're employed in a battered business such as banking or airlines, where it seems the axe could drop at any moment."

You Can Avoid Raising Materialistic Children – WCCO TV

To better understand why children want so much, Santaniello and Vascellaro sat down with Nathan Dungan, an expert on children and money.

Tweens Want Hip Stuff, But Self-esteem Is the Real Need – St. Paul Pioneer Press

“When 'tweens beg for a pair of Hollister jeans or "Guitar Hero" for the holidays, they're asking for more than an item of clothing or electronics. They're trying to shore up their self-esteem.”

Talking About the 'Me' Generation – MarketWatch

"It's amazing how few young people understand where money comes from," says Nathan Dungan, a financial adviser in Minneapolis and the creator of Share Save Spend, an educational program designed to encourage healthy financial habits.

Money for Something – MarketWatch

“At a time when the coolest electronic gadgets are branded with a self-centered "i," it's no wonder that so many kids and adults believe they're entitled to the best, latest, hippest, greatest -- and to have it first.”

Families Get FinanciaL – KARE 11

“It's the cause of more fights between couples than anything else and a leading cause of divorce. So why is it so many of us have trouble dealing with conflicts about money? One Twin Cities financial expert thinks he knows, and has developed a unique program called, Share Save Spend as a kind of 'marriage therapy' for couples with money issues."

Keeping Your Kids Afloat – AARP magazine

"I see young adults struggle with this notion of stepping backward," says Nathan Dungan, president of Share Save Spend, an organization that teaches financial responsibility to families. "They are the first generation that's been marketed to since they were little children. They're used to their own rooms and bathrooms. They're used to eating certain foods and driving in certain cars."

Money and Moral Balance – National Public Radio's Speaking of Faith

The sales are starting, the stores are open late, and many of us are gearing up to spend more money than we actually have in a holiday season with deep roots in religion. We explore the turmoil many of us experience with money in our day-to-day lives — and how we might work towards a moral and practical balance for ourselves and the next generation.

Featuring Nathan Dungan, a financial educator and president of Share Save Spend, an organization that helps people develop healthy financial habits.

Protecting a Target Market – Minnesota Public Radio's MIDMORNING with host Kerri Miller

Nathan Dungan, founder and president of Share Save Spend and Terry Parsons, staff officer for Stewardship in the Episcopal Church in the United States on Midmorning.

Don’t be Your Kids’ ATM, Prodigal Sons and Material Girls review – Motley Fool

Financial advisor Nathan Dungan has filled in the blanks with his commonsense book Prodigal Sons and Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child's ATM. It's a must-read for parents, as it shows in bright line fashion how some of the little decisions we make in supporting our children's poor financial choices can lead to serious problems later on.

Dollars and Sense – Time magazine

"Puh-leeze buy me this, mom!" Every parent has heard the plaintive wail of a child begging for one more toy, outfit or serving of fast food. In his book Prodigal Sons & Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child's ATM (Wiley), financial adviser Nathan Dungan, based in Minneapolis, Minn., offers helpful advice on ways beleaguered parents can respond. Confront the issue head on, he says. "Consumer-product companies are playing for keeps in shaping the financial habits of these young people." TIME recently spoke with Dungan”

Mom! Dad said you’d buy me that! – Sound Money, Minnesota Public Radio

Nathan discusses how to teach children about money.