For Parents of Kids 0-10
“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.
Three “moments that matter” from The Art of Allowance Podcast that will help you and your family on your money-smart journey.
“I think it’s okay to let your kids make mistakes because that’s how we learn.”— Cameron Huddleston Is there a case for tying chores to allowance? If so, then Cameron …
Are you wondering how best to talk to your kids during a crisis? With coronavirus and COVID-19 dominating our lives, I thought it would be helpful to take a slight detour with this episode and talk to an expert about how we can have better conversations with our kids in the midst of a crisis.
Are you looking for ideas to incorporate into your allowance program? Then you’ll enjoy my conversation with Mark and Kimberlee Barnes, “The Not So Perfect Parents.” Mark and Kimberlee are …
You can use your allowance to help instill values you’d like to see in your kids.
In this second installment of our shorter-format episodes — which we call “Small Change” — I explore the term “money-empowered.” This concept is a stated goal of The Art of …
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.)
“It is so hard for parents to let their kids fail, to let their kids screw up. […] It really is one of the most important things that you can …
“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 …
