Parent Driven Development
Episode 051: Allowances for Parents with Scott Hanselman (https://www.hanselman.com/)
Welcome, Scott Hanselman (https://twitter.com/shanselman)
Scott is a programmer, teacher, and speaker. He works out of his home office in Portland, Oregon for the Web Platform Team at Microsoft. Scott has been blogging for 10 years and enjoys blogging about technology, culture, gadgets, diversity, code, and the web. Scott is excited about community, social equity, media, entrepreneurship and above all, the open web.
02:49 Allowances for kids and parents
Father of two boys
The large “A”, and the little “a”
Partner side-eyeing
How to make online banking unscrollable
Sunday cash withdraw
06:01 The mental shift around money
How much money can you spend without consulting your partner?
08:05 Marriage first, kids second
Intentionality, goals, visions - what’s the plan?
Scott’s marital mission statement* - we’re on the same side
10:43 Cash only for allowance
The feeling money brings
Teaching our children the value of the dollar
Greenlight APP - mock debit card
Spend, save, give
16:15 Allowance $$$ amounts
Required chores, that you don’t get paid for!
Scott’s perspective around allowance vs. chores
Teaching the kids how not to be a bad roommate
17:50 Should parents incentivized tasks for the kids
Spread the effort - rotate chores
Having the kids contribute
Perception management - to teach our kids the value of a dollar
23:45 Family commitments as roommates and peers
Context switching with parenting
24:16 Genius / fail moments
Chris’s son, 3-year-old, tunes into Disney Plus only to watch a movie that is terrifying to him #fail
Arit’s daughter as a mishap with potty training #fail
Scott tries to show his kids movie classics, but #fails by choosing the wrong ones, on the otherside Scott and his family are doing a deep dive of American History inspired by current events #genius
Allison has a #genius when her kids create and play Ice Cube games to keep themselves entertained
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Panel
Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p)
Arit Amana (https://twitter.com/AritAmana)
Chris Arcand (https://twitter.com/chrisarcand) Special Guest: Scott Hanselman.
