Hi everyone, I just wanted to share this with you.
Here is an article I just posted on my Allowance Secrets Blog.
Enjoy!
You’re at the grocery store and your child is pulling on your shirt and working his way into a tantrum just because you won’t buy him the candy he wants. Even after you’ve suggested he use his own allowance.
There is nothing more embarrassing than having your child whine and complain because they don’t get everything they want. And you start to wonder, if just giving your child an allowance is part of the problem.
I constantly get questions from parents, just like you, about whether or not you should give your kids an allowance.
At first, my initial response when parents would ask me if giving their child an allowance is a good thing would be NO. But this got me to thinking, is this always the correct answer? So, I decided to start asking other parents for their opinions. And as I listened to what they had to say, my opinion about allowances started to change a bit.
And if you’re like most parents I know then you are concerned about this same topic as well. I have even been out with friends who have given their children money just to stop them from having a tantrum. This is a very touchy subject matter – and most of us just don’t know what the right answer is.
Through my ‘Teaching Children About Money’ website, I have gotten to know a lot of money management experts who focus on children.
I decided that what was needed for most parents was for me to ask the other experts. I wanted to involve them in the discussion and ask them about their experiences and their opinions about giving kids allowances.
This is exactly what I did, and I ended up questioning over 20 money experts, parents, grandparents, teenagers and other successful folks about their experiences and personal opinions about kids and allowances.
The response from these folks was overwhelming. I received dozens of enthusiastic e-mails from these experts telling me that my question had hit quite the nerve. This is certainly a hot button topic for many money experts and something that parents like you are quite concerned about.
I was humbled by the insight and depth of wisdom these experts offered on this intriguing topic.
In fact, all the wisdom and opinions that they shared with me have become quite the manuscript! It took me much longer than I imagined putting it all together.
All of this insightful information became my book, “Allowance Secrets – To Give or Not To Give?”
This FREE e-book is over 200 pages and contains all the information you need in order to decide if giving your child an allowance is best in your situation. I pride myself as being a money coach, and I know that this book has helped perfect my understanding of allowance matters.
Not only does “Allowance Secrets” cover all of the reasons why you would give an allowance to your child, it also covers all of the reasons why you would not give an allowance to child. In addition, this FREE e-book covers a comprehensive list of alternatives to allowances.
I want to empower as many kids as I can because they are our future and if we don’t teach them about money now then we will have a lot of financial fixing to do once they grow up.
My own children are just young and beginning this learning process and as a mother, myself, I can see the great need to teach our children about money.
I sincerely hope that this FREE e-book will help make the allowance decision easier for you, as I know it has certainly broadened my understanding of this hot button topic. Click here to grab your free copy of “Allowance Secrets” as my gift for you and your child. Enjoy! ;o)
Here are a few other books on Allowances and Teaching Children About Money that are featured in “Allowance Secrets“.
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