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How FamZoo Can Help Kids “Own” Chores–While Teaching Money Skills!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 16, 2020 | Managing Money, Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers

What if there were an app that could help your kids get more responsible with chores–and with money? We’ve been talking this month about emotional labor and mental load–how to balance all the details that women especially have running through our...

7 Ways to Teach Kids What Life Actually Costs

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 7, 2016 | Managing Money

How do you teach kids about money–so that they understand what life actually costs? Those of us who are blessed to be parents need to remember that we’re not raising children; we’re raising future adults. And one of the biggest ways that adults get...

Is It Time to Close Those Purse Strings?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 6, 2013 | Family, Parenting Teenagers

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. This week’s column talks about money and how we raise our kids to financial independence. One of the hardest things about sending my daughter off to...