Teaching children the value of money in today’s difficult financial times can be both challenging and frustrating. If mom and dad are struggling with budgeting and saving money, teaching these lessons to children may feel futile. Our children are our future, and we want them to be more happy, successful, and financially sound then we are today. By teaching your children at a young age that saving money is just as important as earning it- you are giving them a valuable life lesson that will help them for years to come. These articles are a combination of fun and unique ways that children and teens can earn money, and also articles about how parents can teach their children the value of budgeting and saving money starting at young age.
- Kids and Money Blog: Speaking with your children about money saving and earning during usual activities (i.e., dinner time, bath time, in the car) and they are more likely to remember the discussion.
- Moneyinstructor: Discusses jobs and chores that your child can do to earn money, and also speaks to whether your children are ready and able to work.
- Gaebler: discusses fun ways that kids make money, either alone or with friends.
- Weeno: work is hard to find and hard to do. Should kids have to do it?
- CoachBrett’s blog: a personal blog of a financial tips for children (i.e., how to earn money and save it), written by a financial expert.
- Moon Jar: A fun system using a piggy bank concept that teaches children to save money and even give money to charity.
- Budget Pulse Blog: Using inclement weather to make money with a fun job!
- Kidpreneurclub Blog: This blog will tell stories of ways kids and teens have made money by starting a business before they turned 18 years old.
- Unusual ways to make money: Various ways that children can earn money from cold drink stands, to crafts and even online blogging.
- Susan Beacham Blog: Learn how to discuss money with your children and help them find creative ways to earn it . Author is a professional financial analyst and parent.
- Make Use Of: All about using a child’s natural skills to help them make money.
- Money & Kids: Learn money management tools that both you and your children can benefit from.
- Kids Money: This website was made by kids for kids to discuss how to get jobs and what to do to earn money.
- Sweet Money Secrets: Teaching a child to start their own business
- Millionaire Kids: Presents a book/program that many children have used to earn money online.
- Prosperity for Kids: A fun site with games, tips, and books parents can buy to teach their children about saving money.
- Basic Affiliate Marketing: Top online prospects for kids wanting to make money online.
- India Parenting: Although, a foreign blog, it has helpful tips about broaching the difficult subject of saving with your children.
- Personal Dividends: Children as young as 3 years old can learn how to save money, and this article walks parents through how to teach children from 3 to 18 years of age how to save money.
- Family Education: Games and activities to teach your children about saving money. Have a weekly program to teach one lesson a week.
- Kidzworld: Teen blogger gives advice about how to start saving money, and how fun it can be.
- Budget Planner: Teaches children good personal finance information (i.e., balancing their money, saving money and giving to charity), with a focus on saving for college.
- Moola Days: This article focuses on 16 year olds and how they can pay for their own car and car insurance after they start driving. Lists jobs that this age can do both in retail and as entrepreneurs.
- Show Kids the Money: Instructions for kids to start their own business and how to get to get profits quickly.
- Free From Broke: Chip systems have been shown to be successful in teaching younger children how to budget their money.
- Athealth: An article discussing the ten best lessons to teach your children about money.
- Internet Based Kids:teaches children how use internet marketing to make money online.
- Jobs for 14 year olds: A website that compiles many different sites, forums and blogs for teenagers looking to make money.
- Blogstash: this site tells kids 13 and older how they can make money doing surveys and shopping online.
- Christian PF Blog: a very comprehensive list with a variety of jobs for “mature and responsible” teenagers.
- Teen Freeway: A website featuring several other sites that teens can to learn about making money. From writing books to surveys, there are several different types of sites they can visit.
- Courtney Tuttle Blog: this article is written in the perspective of a teen making money to pay for their own car insurance. It does list a variety of different types of jobs a teen can do.
- Pay Jr: Important lessons that every parent should teach their kid about money. Includes opening savings and checking accounts and about credit cards.
- Chores and Allowances Blog: Blog by a parent who discusses children doing chores in the family household to earn money.
- Ways For Kids to Earn Money: Written by a teenager who tells about her experience of making money doing an internet business.
- Military Money: lays out the different developmental stages and what a child can learn about saving money in each stage.
- Moolanomy Blog:teaches the four pillars of money management :making money, spending money, saving money, and giving away money.
- Money Saving Mom: a mom not only discusses coupons and bargain shopping, but also discusses how to get your child involved and how they can use their own money and shop frugally.
- Universal Preschool: A preschool site that discusses preschoolers eagerness to learn, and how they are ripe age to start learning to save money.
- Blue Suit Mom: A working mom’s guide to teaching their young children to s
- Digerati Life: Focuses on teaching children better money saving skills then we learned, and how to assist them in not making the same monetary mistakes we have made.
- Financial Cents: Teaching children to earn, donate, and save money will make their future more promising with a brighter future ahead. Article by professional financial planner.
- Family Lobby: coming for a perspective of parents, how to teach your child to be responsible with their money and budget for things that they want.
- Love to Know: Discusses allowances and part-time jobs for teens, and teaching them to open savings accounts and how to manage them well.
- Simple Marriage: coming from the perspective that children learn by modeling what their parents do, subsequently parents must model the money management techniques they want their children to learn.
- Moneyning: Effective ways to teach your children about saving money, and avoid them hating you in the process.
- Free Shipping: Focuses on using teachable moments to establish good savings habits in children.
- Kids Finance: an article about giving your child allowance and how to encourage them to save it.
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