84: Money: Giving teens and tweens an allowance. Two years on my daughter talks about how it’s impacted her.

Send us a textWhat we give our kids to spend, and when, is a perennial problem for all parents. Money is a really tricky topic in any relationship; behind it lurks power, responsibility, and freedom. When our kids hit their tween and teen years their needs and desires begin to rise rapidly, so how we enable them to get those things will have a lot to do with how we feel about handing them money, and what we say to them about it. Early on, Rachel decided that she would use money duri...