If you've been thinking about kids and chores and allowance and you are ready to start teaching your kids the value of work and the value of money - now's a good time to gift them with a way to save what they've earned. This can be accomplished a few different ways, but with younger kids especially, nothing is quite as exciting as stuffing coins and bills into a good old fashioned piggy Continue Reading >>

Are you giving your kids an allowance? Is it free money? Is it tied to work they must do to get paid? Is it pay-per-chore? In our home, we've decided to give our kids a set weekly amount based on age -- as long as they do their daily assigned chores. They also have to do household work that everyone participates in, like filling the dishwasher or straightening the living room. Those are Continue Reading >>

I've heard that many parents are wondering if they should be giving children the responsibility of chores. With the amount of schoolwork children are responsible for, as well as the extracurricular activities they often do, kids are exceptionally busy and parents sometimes wonder if they aren’t putting too much pressure on them.   Well, don’t fret parents. As it turns out, chores are actually Continue Reading >>