Are you helping your kids manage their personal financial life?

April is Financial Literacy for Youth Month in April. And Gov. Bev Perdue is encouraging all of us to do just that.

Mary Cornatzer, a business editor here at The N&O and mom, has a few tips on how to encourage good financial habits. (And she'd love to hear from you about how you are helping your kids. Just e-mail her.) 

My daughter is four, a little young for an allowance or something like that. But we still talk about how we can't get everything we want. And she loves playing with her cash register where she's learning to count money, etc.