Fostering Responsibility

Today there are new realities about money, and new ways to teach your kids how to manage it.

If your child is interested in selling her crafts, learn how you can help her get her business started.

If you are unhappy that your grown son or daughter has returned home to live with you, follow these guidelines for encouraging your offspring to live independently.

Once you have grown children, you need to reevaluate how much financial support you are able and willing to give them.

Here is some good advice on how to teach your kids about money.

Find out how to teach your children about American affluence and social responsibility.

Talk to your kids about money to instill responsible and mature attitudes.

Choose chores and tasks that are appropriate and suited to your child's personality and age.

Chores teach children respect and responsibility. Learn how to dole out chores in a way that promotes positive behavior in your child.

A bit of mutual cooperation can motivate your child to get that room clean!

Teach your kids about money, starting when they're young. Try this savings activity.

This useful activity teaches children how to repair a hole in a bike tire.

Help your child develop positive attitudes about money with these basic financial concepts.

Sharpen your child's problem solving and decision making skills with this activity.

This activity will help your child understand why clean-up is both practical and interesting.

In this activity, you and your child will go through the newspaper and cut out coupons for things you need to buy. Be sure to point out that there's no need to buy unplanned items, just because there is a coupon.

You can help to drive home the importance of cleaning up after an arts & crafts activity, by setting up an experiment using art supplies.

If you make doing laundry a fun game when your kids are young, they will learn to love it!