Controlled Consumption — Helping Kids Thrive in a Consumer-Centric World
We can help our kids move their consumption sliders over time towards minimalism and away from outrageous consumption.
The Raising Money-Smart Kids blog
The Difference Between Wants and…Needlets?
Identifying the difference between needs and wants is one of the three core money-smart skills. With primary needs met, distinguishing between needs and wants feels more like distinguishing between wanting and wanting more. Needlets can help.
Can We Help Our Kids Overcome the Desire for Things?
Desire is intoxicating. The dopamine hit we get is in anticipation of the reward. The reward itself is anticlimactic. How can we help our kids overcome desire?
Three Tactics You Can Use to Help Your Kids (and You) Weather Crises
When everyone in the family is in some form of crisis, we need effective ways to navigate the waters. Here are three tactics you can try.
Does the Allowance Maxim of “One-Dollar-Per-Week-Per-the-Age-of-Your-Child” Still Make Sense?
“One-Dollar-Per-Week-Per-the-Age-of-Your-Child” is simple. A parent hearing this piece of information can act on it almost immediately or file it away for easy access when it’s time to start an allowance. Like anything dogmatic, though, simplicity may also be its weakness.
Learnings from The Art of Allowance Podcast: Money-Smart Moments that Matter
Three “moments that matter” from The Art of Allowance Podcast that will help you and your family on your money-smart journey.
Start an Allowance to Begin a Lifelong Money Conversation with Your Children
An allowance can help your child develop many skills: learning the difference between needs and wants, setting and saving for goals as well as making smart money choices. Perhaps, though, one of an allowance’s less obvious benefits is that it prompts a hopefully lifelong money conversation with your child.
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.
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 …