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We’re concluding our mini-mini series today on chores – and on paying children to do chores, which leads us to larger conversations about money. If you missed the first part of this then then you might want to go and listen to last week’s interview with Dr. Andrew Coppens, who explores the ways that families in different cultures approach chores and what lessons that can hold for those of us who want to encourage our children to do their chores.

Today we’re going to take that conversation to its logical conclusion by talking about money, and what better guest to do that with us than Ron Lieber,who wrote the book The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids who are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money (affiliate link). It’s a really practical guide to talking with your children about money – from what information they should have at what age, to what to do with a child who always wants you to buy them something at the store, to what to say when a child wonders why homeless people don’t have enough money.

Other episodes mentioned in this show

021: Talk Sex Today

034: How do I get my child to do chores?

This episode is the first in a series on the intersection of parenting and money.  You can find other episodes in this series:

105: How to pass on mental wealth to your child

107: The impact of consumerism on children

112: How to Set up a Play Room

115: Reducing the Impact of Advertising to Children

118: Are You Raising Materialistic Kids?

References

Carl Richards’ cartoons for the New York Times

Lahey, J. (2016). The gift of failure. New York: Harper.

Lieber, R. (2016). The opposite of spoiled. New York: Harper. (Affiliate link)

Lythcott-Haimes, J. (2016). How to raise an adult.: Break free of the overparenting trap and prepare your kid for success. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin.