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AOA 008: Essential Money Lessons a Financial Advisor and Father Has Taught His Kids

With Guest Tom Henske Tom Henske is a Certified Financial Planner and Financial Advisor to many affluent clients in New York City, and he leverages his wealth of fiscal knowledge …

Art of Allowance Blog for Parents / Getting Started / Parents of Tweens and Teens

How Much Allowance Should I Give My 12-Year-Old?

So you’ve been following the one-dollar-per-week-per-age-of-your-child allowance system for a while. However, now you have a tween, and you feel that the time has come for her allowance to mature …

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AOA 007: Financial Education Tips for Teens and Kids of All Ages from an Expert Dad

With Bill Dwight of FamZoo Bill Dwight is the founder of FamZoo, a “Virtual Family Bank” that integrates prepaid card accounts with family finance software to help parents and children develop …

Art of Allowance Blog for Parents / Getting Started

3 Easy Ways to Set Up an Allowance for Kids that Works Week After Week

“Everything we tried never seemed to work…As they got older, we tried to really tie it to more chores. But then what would happen was they would do some of …

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AOA 006: An Award-Winning Financial Educator on the Importance of Starting the Money Conversation and Creating “The Family Jar”

With Guest Tabatha Thurman Tabatha Thurman is an award-winning financial literacy educator who has taught money smarts to tens of thousands of Oklahomans. She is also a mom to a …

Art of Allowance Blog for Parents / Getting Started

This Is Why Your Kids Need an Allowance and Why Most Allowance Programs Don’t Work

Ask a parent (ANY parent) if she wants to raise a money-smart kid, and she will answer “yes” 100 percent of the time. We all want our children to have a healthy relationship with money, but most of us don’t know how to foster this connection.

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AOA 005: Learn the Importance of Balance to Help Your Allowance Program Grow with Your Child into Her Teen Years

With Guest Atsuko Atsuko, a mom, emailed me recently to say that her now 16-year-old daughter had started learning money smarts with The Money Mammals back when our program first …

Art of Allowance Blog for Parents / Getting Started

Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Tie an Allowance to Chores as You Try to Raise Money-Smart, Money-Empowered Kids

Lots of kids got spanked when I was younger because this method of discipline appeared to work. The base reasoning made intuitive sense: My kid is being a total jerk …

Parents of Tweens and Teens / Podcast

AOA 004: The Art of Allowance Podcast – How a $100 Per Month Allowance for Your Tween or Teenager Can Save You Money

With Guest Melissa Disharoon Though her husband and sister were skeptical of the dollar amount, guest Melissa Disharoon took the leap to a much larger Breakthrough Allowance for her three …

Credit Unions / Podcast

A0A 003: How a Financial Educator Plans to Teach His Young Son to Become Money-Smart

With Guest Jeremy Cybulski Jeremy Cybulski is a Credit Union Developmental Educator (CUDE) who has presented financial literacy to thousands of kids. He is also now a dad to a …

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