Our three kids are 8, 12, and 16 and we've never been consistent about allowances or financial lessons, and now the older ones are asking for expensive things while the youngest doesn't understand why money matters at all.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family has avoided systematic financial education and now faces the complexity of age-appropriate money lessons across multiple developmental stages.
“Where Are You with Money and children — raising financially literate kids?”
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