Teach your teen wise money habits 28 Articles

by Jane Allyson

Shrewdness and good sense in financial management does not come to people automatically. It has to be learned from an early age and parents are the keystone of the future financial well being of their offspring. Children l...read more

by Ann Marie Dwyer

Learning about earning and paying is a lesson that cannot come too soon for a teenager. I have found the best way to teach money discipline was to open an account in "Bank Mom". When my teens got their first jobs, th...read more

by Nicolette Romero (nom de plume)

One of the most valuable gifts a parent can bestow upon their child is to teach them wise money habits. Lessons can begin early in life and can come in the form of discussions and explanations, practice, and role-modeling...read more

by Shannon Lawrence

Teaching your teen (and even younger children) good money habits is vital to their continued success in the future. When a teenager is not taught how to handle money properly, save money, and decide when to spend it, it s...read more

by Melissa Aytche

Bad credit and bills can come upon you quickly. As a teen just entering the "Real World," they can get behind quickly if not given the proper tools. They will spend years of their life behind before they ever got started...read more

by Tiffany Coley

The teaching of wise spending really ought to begin earlier than the teen years, but don't despair if you have waited until your child has reached the age group that advertisers are relentlessly and mercilessly trying to t...read more

by Nora Carver

Teaching a teen about money and how to handle it can never come too soon as a life lesson. A little economic forethought is necessary to get us through this hum drum adult life of ours. A teenager, especially, needs to lea...read more

by MJ Suttor

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the time of saving, it was the time of spending. It was the age of ipods and $100 shoes; it was the age of I want a car. Out of reverence for Charles Dickens,...read more

by Rachel Faye

Teach your teen wise money habits Ma, I need $5 for lunch tomorrow! This coming from a twelve-year old boy who is not earning a salary. As a working adult, even I don't have a $5 lunch well, not everyday, just a coup...read more

by Honey Domingo

Teach Your Teen Wise Money Habits When I was growing up, . . . money grew on trees. And apparently, according to my own younger children, they believe that it still does! I know that I was shocked as a teen to sta...read more

by Dawn Hawkins

Teaching your children wise money habits is important from the time they are small. By the time they are teenagers, the need is escalated to urgent. As teenagers, they will soon be out in the real world and will need to kn...read more

by Trudi Buck

Getting a teenager to do just about anything can be a challenge. They've reached a point in their lives where they are certain they know what's best for them and try as you may to correct them, they're just not having anyt...read more

by Caitlin Hopson

I haven't had teens yet but I was and still am one. I think my way of teaching teens wise money habits is to get them to work for what they want. Like, if they want a new CD then, maybe start off with outside or inside wor...read more

by Lara Anne

If you look back to when you were a child or a teenager and you were at school, you will probably find that the things that you remember the most were the things that you actually did yourself. This is because the action ...read more

by Gaynell Parker

Your teen has over spent his checking account - again. Being a good parent, you sat down with him/her at the beginning when he/she opened the account, and stressed how important it was to record everything in their check ...read more

by Susan Smith-Roberts

Teaching your teen wise money habits can be fun. Being a parent in today's society one has to be creative. Our children today have so much hidden potential we as parents just need to guide it out. Teaching your chil...read more

by Todd Daigneault

It is important to teach your teen wise money habits. There's a commercial on TV that just seems to get that concept right. It shows a mid-teen constantly nagging her father for money to see concerts or to buy things. T...read more

by Tanesa Sanchez

Teaching your teen wise money habits now will result in better money management throughout their adulthood. Too many times have we seen children who do not understand the value of money and therefore, their money manageme...read more

by Branwen Smith

Nearly two decades after I left my parents' home, the penny is finally dropping about how to deal with money. My parents taught me so much but there were some aspects of money they never mentioned - they were taking some p...read more

by Sassy Mcgree

Need for fashion, foods, drink, entertainment, sports can just get it easily by teen in this modern century especially by media influence on the television, magazines, newspaper, and friends. Teen always have need for fash...read more