My Changing Life: Changes with Money & Finance

This brief episode from the six-part My Changing Life advice series for ‘tweens and teens offers tips on making, managing, and saving money. A narrator shares ideas for handling finances (while shots of the items and activities that hard-earned dollars can buy appear onscreen), and kids express their feelings and offer advice in brief interview clips. Interjected throughout are several short vignettes—somewhat awkwardly acted by amateur juvenile performers—that further elaborate on the material that is presented here, which includes segments on “Budgeting and Saving,” “Allowances and Chores,” and “Having and Spending Money.” Short but informative, this is a welcome primer on an important subject that can help young people mature into fiscally responsible adults. Other titles in the series include Changes with School, Changes with Family, Social Changes, Changes for Boys (The Complete Guide to Puberty), and Changes for Girls (The Complete Guide to Puberty). Recommended. Aud: I, J, P. (K. Cruver)