Moms are most influential in teaching kids about money. Learn the secret and save some green in honor of Mother’s Day! Special note from Lynne Finch, the mom who created this simple, easy-to-use system. “Now my grandchildren are learning the no-cash allowance way!” says the award-winning author.
Click! Click! Parents are discovering, to their surprise, that little Johnny has been racking up credit card charges while playing on mobile devices. Apple is being sued because kids can make in-app purchases that are billed to the parents iTunes account. Amazon is taking heat because the Kindle Fire charges 1-Click purchases without a password. [...]
Join the AWN team on April 23 on Army Wife Talk Radio for a conversation with Lynne Finch of www.thenocashallowance. Lynne will be sharing tips for getting our kids motivated the no cash way! AWTR Show 364: No-Cash Allowance
Recently I happened to tune in to a radio call-in show where the topic was “The Cost of Financial Literacy.” So as a first-time called I dialed in to add my two cents worth about my favorite topic kids and money. After some energetic questioning by the screener there I was live on radio with [...]
Back Pack Free Friday May 4, 2012 Every day millions of children go to school tired, dehydrated, and many times also hungry. Back Pack Free Friday focuses public awareness on the very real burdens lack of appreciation for children’s foundational health places on children and schools. Back Pack Free Friday is sponsored by an international [...]
For the purposes of helping your kids understand where money comes from, let’s sort money ownership into three buckets: personal, family, and government. Personal money. In general, kids get money from their family. They don’t have to have a job, report their income to the government or pay taxes. Children have a lot of freedom [...]
Imagine growing up in a home where you never received your allowance in cash? From the time our children were pre-schoolers, they received their allowance as number in their account, had total control of their money and had to pay their own bills. It was all money we would spend on them anyway, we simply [...]
Parents expecting schools to teach their children about financial literacy are going to be disappointed after reading a recent Survey of the States that shows that the U.S. is going backward. To put a different spin on it, let’s compare financial education with driver’s education. Every teen knows that before you can get a driver’s [...]
Welcome to Day #11 of Bloggers Read Across the Globe (BRAG) — Promoting Children’s Reading and Literacy Years of research show that when adults read to children, discussing story content, asking open-ended questions about story events, explaining the meaning of words, and pointing out features of print, they promote increased language development, comprehension of story [...]
Parents everywhere say to their kids, “Take care of your money. You don’t want to lose it.” For me that was long ago when I was a young girl with a few coins jangling in my pocket. Now that I carry very little cash, taking care of my money requires a keyboard, online access and [...]
Recently I’ve learned about a global effort to encourage reading and writing. The following is an excerpt from the LitWorld website. Click on the image to link to their site. Worldwide at least 793 million people remain illiterate. World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read [...]