“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 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.
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). …
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 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 …
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 …
“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 …
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.
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 …
I remember thinking to myself, “How could you not know this?” I was a sophomore Teacher’s Assistant (TA) in the Bates College Freshman Biology lab. One of the students had …
