“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 …
I recently came across Bill Gates’ list of 5 amazing books he read last year. As I reviewed it, I recalled that Gates inspired me years ago to venture cross-country …
“Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.” …
If you went to college in the early 90s, then you’ll likely remember getting an offer from MBNA in the mail. MBNA merged with Bank of America over a decade …
There are three important things that I learned while teaching my kids money smarts. Money Smart Lesson #1: There Is Very Little That We Truly Need My kids chide me …
