How an Allowance Can Help Us Teach Our Kids (and Ourselves) to Experience More Gratitude
You can use your allowance to help instill values you’d like to see in your kids.
Raising Money-Smart Kids
What the Allowance Survey from AICPA Gets Totally Wrong (And Very Much Right)
I think the AICPA misses the point of allowance by claiming that savings rates are “alarmingly low.” (If I give them the benefit of the doubt, they might have been trying to stir up some controversy — like I’m doing with the title of this blog post.)
Allowance Guidelines vs. Rules with Thoughts from Barbara Coloroso’s Book About Raising Children, kids are worth it
“Kids who are consistently bribed and rewarded will spend a lot of energy trying to figure out what they can do to please (or upset) their parents, and they will …
Keep It Simple to “Spark Joy” with Your Art of Allowance Program
Keep your system simple, and begin that all-important lifelong conversation about money with your kids. Let them learn the basics and perhaps learn how to use money to “spark joy” for themselves.
The Diderot Effect: 4 Simple Ways to Help Your Kids Avoid Cascading Costs
I remember when my daughter made her first club soccer team. It was an exciting time and a definite upgrade. Well, certainly an upgrade from her previous coach (yours truly). …
A Share Jar Increases the Chances that your Child will Donate Consistently
My daughter’s school recently hosted a walk-a-thon. My wife suggested that she donate $25 of her Share jar (more about the three jar system here) money. We looked in her …
Do you ever pay for food when your teen is out with her friends (and gets an allowance for just this sort of thing)?
“Do you ever pay for your child’s food when she’s out and you’re not with her?” This is what a mom starting up a Breakthrough Allowance wanted to know for …
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 …
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 …
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.