Brandy Ellen, Author at Homey App for Families - Page 2 of 4
How to Teach Kids about Interest
Teaching kids about interest with bank accounts and saving money isn’t easy. This is something that may work best in visual, hands-on approach.
Today we are sharing a few tips on how you can work to teach your kids about interest. It’s important kids learn how to be responsible with money and how to invest it properly into a savings account or, as they get older, a retirement fund.
Here’s our advice to get you started in the direction of teaching kids about interest.
Why is it Sometimes Good to Pay Kids for Chores?
The discussion of whether or not to pay kids for chores is an important topic to address. While the opinion on this subject varies from home to home, there is a benefit to paying kids for chores. Those households who pay for chores use the logical reasoning thought process that adults get paid to do their job, so why not pay kids to do their job as well. The other side of the picture thinks that kids shouldn’t be paid to do chores as they should be a part of life skills they simply need to learn to survive as adults. While both sides of the discussion have valid points, today I wanted to share a few reasons why paying kids for chores is beneficial for certain things.
What Kids Learn from an Allowance
Many parents struggle with teaching their kids about money because they don’t feel confident about the financial side of life as it is. There are some households who immediately feel an allowance is the right answer. They want to ensure their kids get a weekly allowance based on a list of chores that have to be completed. Then there are other households who feel chores should be a part of the kids’ day to day life because they need to be taught responsibilities. There is no correct answer when it comes to providing your own kid an allowance or not, it’s all about what works best in your household to go along with your views on this subject.
Tips to Stay Consistent with Chores for Kids
As a parent, you may have a huge to-do list. You have the duty to juggle a career, kids, meal planning and many other things. Each day you vow to be better at remaining consistent with the daily chores that each kid has assigned, but the joy of life gets more overwhelming. There is a way to stay consistent with chores for kids and we are sharing a few tips so that you and the kids can have a weekly routine that can be counted on.
Help Your Kids Avoid Hasty Money Decisions
You have it all figured out, the kids are earning their own money and saving it. You seem to have figured out how to guide your children towards determining what a need and a want is. The kids seem to comprehend basic financial tips, they have a bank account and are earning money on a regular basis. Then it happens, something arrives on the market and your kid is ready to spend all of that hard earned cash on something without thinking it through. There are ways you can help kids avoid hasty money decisions, but you may need to read these tips to assist in guiding you so that you and your kids survive this scenario.
Why It’s Important for Kids to Learn about Banking Early
It’s important that you think about your kid’s financial future as well as their health. It seems a parent often focuses on one area of growth throughout their days of raising children. It’s easy to get consumed with the basic life skills that you must teach a kid, but we often neglect to think about the bigger picture. Kids need to learn basic money management skills from a young age and having a bank account will help them learn this skill.
Saving and Banking App for Kids
Teaching kids how to manage money is a vital part of parenthood but most often overlooked. As a means to help inspire kids to learn how to complete chores for money, Homey now released new financial literacy features. It allows parents to transfer kids’ chore earnings to an actual bank account to promote long term saving, enables kids to learn to manage their funds with the help of virtual saving jars, and offers families an adjustable system to track their chores and responsibilities.
Laundry Needs to be Done; The Importance of Teaching Kids Chores Early
Many people don’t realize the amount of work it takes for a household to run efficiently. It takes teamwork. Expecting one person, such as mom, to do everything, is unrealistic. It is vital to teach kids the importance of doing chores early on. You don’t want them to grow up being dependent upon someone to take care of them. It teaches responsibility and giving back to others.
By not teaching kids early on in life how to do chores, it sets them up to have a limited ability to function. They won’t be able to relate to kids their own age. This can cause isolation, embarrassment, and can even lead to depression.
Five Tips to Teach Kids About Budgeting Without Breaking the Bank
One of the most important lessons to teach your children is about how to handle their finances.
But teaching them to budget can be difficult, especially if you don’t have enough yourself to provide your children with a regular allowance that would enable them to learn to manage their own money.
Here are five tips to still teach your kids the basics of this necessary life skill without a weekly allowance.
What to Look for When Choosing a Bank for Kids
Setting up a bank account for your kids is a big deal. This is the first step towards admitting that they are getting older and must learn to be financially responsible. Some parents may look forward to this day while others aren’t quite ready. With that being said, it’s important to know what to look for when choosing a bank for kids, because this is their first experience and you want it to go well.
Not all bank accounts are appropriate for kids, and you also might want to think about what the account is for – is it for long term or short term saving, is it to have a place to put all those quarters your kids have in their piggybank, is it to manage their allowance or birthday money, is it to have an overview over their financial habits or is it to make their spending easier. Here’s what to look for.