The world of allowances — and teaching kids about money in general — looks a lot different today than it did in the past.

Teaching your child the value of a dollar (or maybe $5 when adjusted for inflation) is one of the great challenges of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meg Wheeler is a certified public accountant (CPA) and a financial educator. She's also a mom to an 8-year-old, who gets an ...

Teaching kids about money management has become increasingly critical, especially since more than half of today’s young people report feeling unprepared for their financial futures. While tracking ...

My kids never really listened when we'd ground them or put them in time-out. We realized that docking their allowance made them improve their behavior. They also have a chance to earn back any lost ...

My 9-year-old daughter gets $10 per month as an allowance. Here's how we arrived at that figure: She spends the entirety of her income on Pokémon cards, and I can't stand the thought of having more ...

Around the 1920s, a certain class of parents—those with enough money to indulge their kids from time to time—started to panic. Toy companies and trinket manufacturers were buffeting kids with ads, and ...

Allowance may no longer mean just handing cash to your kids every Friday anymore. Why? Because now there’s an app for that! Several, actually. These smartphone apps are automating the allowance ...

Meg Wheeler is a certified public accountant (CPA) and a financial educator. She's also a mom to an 8-year-old, who gets an allowance that isn't tied to chores. She says this lets her use the ...