Chores and allowances have long been a way of life for many families with children. For some, chores were something you did while growing up because they were part of everyday family life. For others, ...

Doing chores is a tradition in many families. Chores help kids learn responsibility, and sharing chores gives you help around the house. Not sure your kids will go for it? Take heart! There are ways ...

Allowance should be tied to chores because it helps kids make the work-to-money connection that will become more important as they grow up, says Gregg Murset, certified financial planner and CEO of ...

Overwhelmed at home? Overwhelmed by attempting to delegate? Check out these simple ideas to make a chore chart work for your family. I know, it sounds crazy. The only thing worse than cleaning ...

In the old Cybil Shepherd/Bruce Willis comedy Moonlighting, the office workers at the Blue Moon Detective Agency once chanted "No work and pay!" hoping for just that -- to be paid for doing nothing.

I recently heard from Laurel, a writer who had interviewed me for a story about allowances and then contacted me as a parent with a perplexing personal problem. "When I gave my 5-year-old a quarter ...

It’s parents’ job to teach their kids about money and budgeting, but with a recent Bankrate.com survey showing that just over three-fourths of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, it seems that ...

The practice of paying children an allowance kicked off in earnest about 100 years ago. “The motivation was twofold,” says Steven Mintz, a historian of childhood at the University of Texas at Austin. ...