Parent Corner Conversation: Coffee Hour
Video = http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/teenager/responsibilities/chores/allowance-and-how-spend-it
1. Do you give your children an allowance?
2. If so, why do you give allowance?
3. Do you agree or disagree that giving allowance helps kids learn to manage their money?
4. How much allowance to you give your child?
a. The average American family pays approximately 50 cents per week for each year of a child’s age. For example, a 10-year-old would get $5 per week.
b. Another often-quoted allowance figure is $1 per week for each year of the child’s age, so an 8-year-old would receive $8 per week.
5. Have you talked to your kids how to manage their allowance?
a. Are you using Giving, Saving, Spending plan?
b. Do you have a different approach to teaching kids to manage their money?
6. As people of God, and followers of Christ what do you think are important values to pass onto our children about money?
Resources for you family about stewardship and allowance
Video = http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/teenager/responsibilities/chores/kids-chores-and-household-responsibilities
1. Do your children have assigned chores?
2. Do you agree with Denene Millner (video) that “every child should really participate in the care and upkeep of the place where they live, and that means that every kid really should have some chores”?
7. As people of God and followers of Christ, what do you think are important values to pass onto our children about chores and household responsibility?
Resources for you family about chores are available
Easy Ways to teach your children about gratitude in everyday life:
Resources for teaching your children about Gratitude:
Free Thanksgiving Gratitude Conversation Cards & Activities 13-page PDF from ThinkingIQ: http://thinkingiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Gratitude-cards-cover.pdf
Printable Gratitude Journal in color: print, cut and assemble.
Kids Printable Gratitude Journal
Teaching kids about the difference between needs and wants:
Happiness is born from Gratitude see the TedTalk by David Steindle-Rast for adults