Books & tools for growing families

Money isn't the only kind of wealth.

We teach and model every kind—for kids, families, and classrooms. Creative, joyful tools that help children grow rich in the things that last a lifetime.

Meet the book What is whole-wealth?
Our why

Every child is wealthy in more ways than one.

Money is only one kind of wealth—and it's rarely the kind that shapes a life most. At Whole-Wealth Kids, we make creative books and tools that help families grow all six kinds, from a child's very first letters to the everyday rhythms of home.

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Emotional

Feeling deeply and safely: naming emotions, keeping ourselves and others safe, practicing vulnerability, and learning to set and honor boundaries—our own and others'. Developing and practicing emotional resilience regardless of our circumstances.

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Physical

Stewarding the body we're given—and the things we create, buy, or are given—as vital resources: caring for them as well as our circumstances allow (without becoming anxious about what we cannot control).

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Mental

The patience and diligence to keep learning: building whatever skill or knowledge comes next, one honest effort at a time. Having the belief that any skill or knowledge can be learned with enough help and time and that no knowledge gained is wasted.

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Social

Living in reciprocity and belonging: keeping our word, working alongside others, and knowing that relationships and community are among our greatest resources—and that we're made for work and joy together, not alone.

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Financial

Becoming knowledgeable, wise, and practical with money and resources: doing our best to create, accumulate, transfer, and share value while understanding that value shifts, and that a dollar today isn't a dollar tomorrow.

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Spiritual

Faith, true values, and care for the world and the people we all share it with. Learning to recognize true values vs anti-values vs preferences and making wise, intentional choices about which ones guide our thoughts, words, and actions.

We teach and model every kind of wealth—for kids, families, and classrooms.

Lily's Learning Letters: A Mnemonic Alphabet by Ashley T. Whitesides
Now available

Lily's Learning Letters

Letters that mean something are letters that stick.

A read-aloud alphabet book that turns all 52 letterforms into pictures children already know and love—an apple for "a," a drum for "d," a grape on a vine for "g." Instead of memorizing abstract shapes, your child recognizes friends and toys they can play with.

  • Built for transfer. Every mnemonic is drawn in the letter's own thin stroke form—the same shape they'll meet in books, on signs, and in their own handwriting.
  • Uppercase & lowercase share one idea. Each pair is the same concept in two sizes, so learning one teaches the other.
  • Every letter has two voices. Lowercase verses speak in your child's voice; uppercase verses speak in yours—so reading together becomes a conversation.

Written for 2½-year-old Lily, who went from recognizing zero letters to loving, playing with, and mnemonically naming all 52 in about four months. For all ages, and especially ages 2–5.

Amazon—available July 31 ↗ Available on Amazon starting July 31. Purchase is handled securely by Amazon.
More to explore

The Whole-Wealth shelf

Stories and tools that introduce children to a whole-wealth approach to life—through imagination, play, and values they'll carry for good.

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The Visitors' Shelf

The Cleaning Fairy

Your child's magical guide to caring for spaces, things, and themselves. 17 tracks of cleaning missions, four stories, and three original songs—Yoto-ready or ready to play from any phone or speaker. (Secretly for grown-ups, too.)

Listen & buy on Gumroad →
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Lily's Learning Letters

The Mnemonic Alphabet Cards

Printable letter cards that pair every sound with a picture children remember—the same system behind the book, ready for letter hunts, tracing, and play.

Buy on Etsy
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Whole-Wealth Home

Home Rhythm Charts

Gentle, threshold-based routines that help the whole family find their flow—a calmer, more connected home, one rhythm at a time.

Coming soon →
Printed mnemonic letter cards, a b c and p q r
The full Whole-Wealth Kids mnemonic alphabet displayed
Holding up a translucent mnemonic S letter card
Ashley T. Whitesides, founder of Whole-Wealth Kids
About the author

Hi, I'm Ashley.

Whole-Wealth Kids started at home—on the living room floor, at the kitchen counter, in the car—in the small, ordinary moments where character is quietly built. I'm a curriculum designer, financial-literacy educator, and mom, and this work grew out of my own family's ongoing journey to notice, care for, and delight in the people and things around us. I don't have it all figured out—we're learning as we go—but that's rather the point.

My background is in business, education, and design—I led the design for a full high-school financial-literacy curriculum, created materials and led teacher trainings that reached over 100 educators, co-directed an international conference, and studied and taught multiple foreign languages. If I can teach these fundamentals to teenagers, I'm convinced we can plant the very same seeds—stewardship, patience, wise care of what we're given—in our littlest ones, in ways they'll actually love.

That's what everything here is really about—a bigger picture of wealth than money alone: the emotional, physical, mental, social, financial, and spiritual kind. Every book and tool is one we're growing right alongside our own family, an invitation to help yours grow all of it too—in your own way, and on your own timeline.

Made for Lily, and for your little ones too.

The story behind the work

Curious how a cleaning fairy, an alphabet book, and a whole framework for "whole-wealth" all connect? That's the backstory—the origins, the business evolution, and the frameworks underneath it all—and I share it over on Substack.

Read on Substack