Should You Pay Your Child for Chores? Everything Parents Ask About Allowance
Ask ten parents whether they pay their children for doing chores, and you’ll get ten different answers, most of them delivered with surprising conviction. It’s one of those parenting questions that reveals a lot about how people think about money, family responsibility, and what childhood is for.
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How Kids Can Earn Their First Money (Ideas That Actually Teach Something)
There’s a particular face children make when they hold money they’ve earned themselves for the first time. It’s different from the face they make when they receive money as a gift. There’s more weight to it. More stillness. They look at it a bit longer before putting it anywhere.
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What to Do When Your Child Asks Why You Go to Work
You’re getting your coat. Your bag is by the door. Your child looks up from whatever they’re doing and asks, with the particular directness that only very young children manage: “Why do you have to go to work?”
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Why Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: How to Explain Where Money Comes From
Your child asks you for something at the shop. You say not today. They ask why. You say something about money. They think about it for a moment and then ask, with complete seriousness: “Well, why don’t you just get more?”
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