Category Archives: Kids and Money

my thoughts on rais­ing financially-responsible kids

Double Dipping

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 12, 2009
As you know, I home­schooled our two chil­dren for 12+ years.  Now they both attend a pri­vate high school that’s a good com­mute away from home.  The one part of this arrange­ment that I hate despise dread:  lunches.  I strongly dis­like mak­ing lunches 5 nights a week.  If that makes me a bad mom, so [...]
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Food

By Suburban Wife | Published: September 11, 2009
If this had been a nor­mal day, it would have been a no-spend day.  After all, it’s Fri­day and I typ­i­cally don’t have a car on Fri­day which means I’m stuck at home all day which means I’m not likely to spend money. But it wasn’t a typ­i­cal day.  No it was a there’s-no-milk-in-the-fridge-and-I’m-all-out-of-yogurt-too day.  What’s a [...]
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Updated Allowances

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 12, 2009
Just about the only major change to our fam­ily finan­cial poli­cies made dur­ing my blog­ging sab­bat­i­cal was in regard to the children’s allowances. To recap the old policies: The Daughter’s allowance was $6 per week.  In addi­tion to her weekly allowance she was also “given” a hypo­thet­i­cal $100 per month with which she was expected to buy [...]
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Daily Dollars & A Test Passed

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 7, 2009
My nephew’s in town.  He’s 16.  While he’s not the biggest of eaters, he can put away his fair share of food.  Feed­ing three teens seems like a full-time job.  Plus The Husband’s 41-yo Down’s Syn­drome son has been stay­ing with us for the past two weeks.  He’ll sit down and eat until all food [...]
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Is It Possible I’m Doing Something Right?

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 24, 2008
The Son is 14.  Despite the fact that he’s a bit quirky and prob­a­bly has Asperger’s, he’s a pretty typ­i­cal 14-year-old boy. Lately he has started draw­ing my atten­tion to TV com­mer­cials for iPhone appli­ca­tions that he thinks are very, very cool.  So cool that Mr. Even-Tempered’s eyes get all big and shiny and he exclaims, [...]
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