money and kids

My daughter is only five years old, but I'm already worried she isn't learning money management skills early enough. We haven't started her on an allowance yet, and every time my wife and I vow to start another "chore sheet" on the side of the refrigerator, we don't always follow through on it and...

High schools with bank branches, ATMs and tellers to help students withdraw money? Can we trust teenagers with these just down the hall from chem lab? I gave it some thought last week when I went to pick up my cousin Cate, who I blogged about recently regarding her pondering the merits of public...

Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a fortune of more than $750 million, thanks to a string of lucrative musicals -- but his kids better keep their day jobs. In an interview with the Mirror, Lord Webber states that his five children will be seeing very little of his cash when he dies. The composer...

Two generations ago most families lived on working farms. All family members participated in the work and had responsibilities. School was designed to give the children the summer off primarily because they were needed on the farm to help with the planting and harvest of crops. Children had...