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.
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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 …
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 …