According to a recent T. Rowe price study, more than 77 percent of parents say they are not always honest with their children about money, and 15 percent don’t tell the truth at least on a weekly bas...
Research shows that most Americans have poor financial literacy and fail to plan ahead for major life events such as retirement and paying for children’s education. Parents who are actively teaching ...
The almost 140,000 young users of the online chore chart, MyJobChart.com, will now have a chance to help by donating livestock to families all over the globe. My Job Chart announced this week that He...
Remember when we suggested that your kids (and you) keep track of every cent spent for 30 days? How is that going for your family? Hopefully, it’s starting to become a habit – one that will continue ...
April is also known as a time of fresh starts and renewals which makes it a perfect time to start teaching our kids about financial literacy, if we haven’t been doing so already. It might be surprisi...
In the last post, we talked about parents needing to be good examples for their kids when it comes to money management. Businesses and corporations track very single penny earned and are aware of how...
Everyone wants their kids to be happy. If you asked a dozen people, especially children, to define happiness you would most likely get a dozen different answers. If you look up happiness in the dicti...
We all want our kids to grow up and be able to make wise financial decisions. But research indicates that most young people leave home with very little practical knowledge and experience in this area...
“MyJobChart.com, an online chore chart was designed to teach young people the concept of responsibility, work ethic and the value of money by giving them a way to earn points for completing their cho...
If you’ve ever wasted time looking for something that you knew you had but could not find anywhere, you’ll most likely agree with the motto: “Organization saves time.” Do your kids run all over the h...
If you have been involved with My Job Chart for a while, then you have come to appreciate our three main areas of focus: “saving, sharing and spending.” I call it a 3-legged stool. Just for a moment,...
You hear it all the time, “I just want my kids to be responsible.” What does that mean to you? Better yet, what does it mean to your child? Sometimes I wonder if my kids and I speak the same language...
We hope you all enjoyed the holiday season with your families. We certainly did. The holidays are perfect for enjoying family time together. They provide opportunities for giving service and teaching...
If you ask us, there are a million reasons to love My Job Chart. But perhaps one of the most overlooked features is the individual login. You see, by putting your job chart online, your child must us...
Okay, we may be stretching this one a little bit. But consider for a moment the possibility that getting your kids to work with an online job chart might easily be preparing them for life in the corp...
Life isn’t fair. It’s the lesson you’ve been trying to get your kids to understand for years. But no matter how many times you say it, your children will still expect fairness. It’s almost a disease ...
Last night I had a dream. I dreamed that I was the cashier of a buffet-style school cafeteria. The children who came to the cafeteria had to pay just thirty cents for their meal. Now, in the dream, m...
Every parent wants their children to be grateful. After all, grateful children are a lot easier to please, tend to be more helpful, and are more pleasant to be around. But how do you teach children g...
One of the topics we have barely touched on in this blog is the importance of saving money. While MyJobChart.com allows you and your children to set the parameters for how much of your child’s earnin...
Pillowcases. Your children have brought home pillowcases of candy. And now you’ve got to figure out what to do with it. As a good parent you don’t want them eating whatever they want when they want. ...
As parents, it’s so important for us to teach our children to be kind, charitable and responsible – all at the same time. So when MyJobChart was created, it was built with a SHARE area. The SHA...
As you may know, MyJobChart.com is attracting the attention of kids, parents, and experts everywhere. We love it when another parenting guru takes an interest in what we’re doing. Our latest triumph ...
As you know by now, MyJobChart.com was created as a convenience tool for frustrated parents. Little did we know there were psychological benefits to such a system. For our blog post today, we are exc...
As you’re well aware, being a parent includes a lot of responsibility. This blog is intended to cover all aspects of parenthood. We’ve been delighted by the interest the MyJobChart.com blog has recei...
As we approached the blog today, the question came up: are these posts (and the free service MyJobChart provides) valuable for every family? After all, not every family is the same. In fact, we were ...
The kids are back in school. And if you’re like most parents, that means time to re-evaluate everything from schedules, to extra-curricular activities, to job charts. What worked during the summer is...
If your kids are like, well, any other kids in the world, one of their favorite phrases is, “That’s not fair.” And no matter how many times you explain that life is not fair, they will continue to us...
Over the weekend, I was surprised to see a Facebook friend of mine post this statement: Just completed what seems like the millionth chore chart/program for my children. I think the greatest accompli...
We’ve already written a few articles about the benefits of kids reading. And in those articles we gave you all kinds of facts about how kids that read perform better in school. So we’re not going to ...
As a kid, your parents almost certainly assigned you chores. But…as we are somewhat older now, and technology back then was limited, your chores were probably written on a sheet of paper and taped to...
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