Screw old-fashioned piggybanks: When even the Backyardigans are embracing 007-style tech, it's time to get modern about teaching kids to safeguard their money. Recommended for ages 3 and up (and good luck getting a 3-year-old to figure it out), this personal safe ($20 from Target) makes you navigate motion-sensing lasers, a secret code and a thumbprint recognizer (which, truth be told, works with anyone's thumb; no biometrics here) to open it. Mess up any of the above, and an alarm goes off. Great stress reducer, yes?
