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Keeping Tabs on Your Teen’s Allowance
Once you’ve started handing over cash every month, your next goal should be working out how to keep track of your teen’s allowance. Don’t worry, we’re here to help with some pretty simple ideas....
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What Happens After Share, Save, Spend?
So, you thought the hard work you did to teach your kids about money was working perfectly, until suddenly it wasn’t any more. The piggy bank was great. Share, Save, Spend jars worked just fine… for...
View ArticleTeens Behaving Badly: Allowance Disasters
If your teen is on an allowance, you need to be prepared for impending disaster. They will make allowance mistakes. It’s coming, trust me. It’s just a matter of how big, and when. If your teen isn’t on...
View ArticleJust Start: Teaching Teens About Money
We’re in the middle of a webinar-based program for parents right now, and had a Q&A session last week. One of the parents had some great questions: How do I get started teaching my kids about...
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The Perfect Last-Minute Christmas Gift?
I’m going to share with you an idea for the perfect last-minute Christmas gift for your teen. It’s a little bit… unusual, but I guarantee, everyone will love this one. Give your teen an allowance,...
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Judging Our Success Based on Our Kids’ Happiness
Is it possible that in our misguided attempt as parents to ensure our kids’ happiness, we are missing out on what actually makes them happy in the first place? In a flukey turn of events last...
View ArticleIntroduce Your Kids to a Vacation Budget
I remember when I was senior in high school, my parents took me and my two sisters on a vacation to Marco Island. It was the perfect vacation for three teenage girls. Not only was there ample sun (I...
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The (Real) High Cost of Youth Sports
I travel a lot for business. This brings me into contact with a lot of different people, coming from a lot of different circumstances in life. Last week, I was flying back home from Denver, and took a...
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Get Your Teen Off the Couch!
“Joe’s just not interested in anything!” a parent moaned. “Nothing motivates him, all he wants to do is sit in front of the computer and play video games! Money means nothing to him!” BINGO! It’s Time...
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Saying No Doesn’t Make You a Monster
One of our kids was recently invited to take a trip with a couple of buddies. After endless discussion and planning, dates were approved and the plan was set. The friends and their parents know that...
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Be Consistent! Schedule Allowance Meetings Today!
School days, school days Dear old Golden Rule days ‘Reading and ‘writing and ‘arithmetic Taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick… My mom delighted in singing that song to us on the first day of school....
View ArticleAll I Want For Christmas is a Brand New Kid
Welcome to our four-week series! There are probably a few things you wish you could change about your kids! Over the next few weeks we’re going to work on teaching kids appreciation. As the holidays...
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All I Want for Christmas is a Brand New Kid: Who Does All of This Stuff Anyway?
Think about the Christmas and kids and there are a lot of things that come to mind. Santa, presents, candy, singing, endless activities are a few. One that probably doesn’t – appreciation. Last week we...
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Do You Intend to Be a Great Parent?
Be Intentional to Be a Great Parent Intentionality isn’t a word we often associate with parenting. Something about parenting seems much more chaotic than that. Kind of like herding cats. But don’t...
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How Do You Spend Quality Time with Your Kids?
Copyright: daphoto / 123RF Stock Photo Years ago, when my kids were younger, the neighborhood ladies would get together every once in a while for lunch and a little wine while the kids were at school....
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Are You Guilty of Participating in the Toddler Wage Gap?
There’s no denying that boys and girls are different. From the way they learn to how they play, they just process the world in unique ways. If I had my doubts, they disappeared the day I left my two...
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This Year, Make the Kids Your Travel Planners
Ever spend thousands of dollars on your family’s dream vacation just to get an eye roll from your teenager the very first day? Makes your blood boil, doesn’t it? And when your husband so helpfully...
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Trust Your Parenting First, Then Trust Your Kids
Trust. How much should we trust our kids? When should we trust them to walk to the park by themselves? To remember their own library books? To get their homework turned in on time? To drive their...
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How to Teach Kids to be Entrepreneurs
Newspaper routes. It used to be when people thought about young kids and their first jobs, an image of a small boy on a bike flinging newspapers is what would come to mind. All of the cool characters...
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Why Leaving a Full Cart of Groceries at the Store is One of the Best Lessons...
Ever been to the store and heard a parent say repeatedly, “If you don’t knock it off right now, we’re leaving!” Every two minutes? Or maybe you’ve had your own cringe-worthy threats and found...
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