Family Money Management, Budgeting | Essential Kids

From the credit card and phone "tap" trap, to the ubiquity of buy now, pay later services, it is frighteningly easy for ...

Kids and money: Accounts, apps, jars or stars?

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Women are more likely to initiate divorce, but single mothers are most likely to live in poverty.

'Cheaper in pairs': single parents dodge poverty by finding new love

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Parenthood in the US and in Australia is getting harder.

Find parenting tough? Be glad you're not American

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How do working parents juggle school holidays?

How do working parents manage school holidays?

As kids returned to school this week I could feel the sense of relief in the air and it caused me to once again question how full-time working parents manage child minding in the school holidays.

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How much do you expect financially from your new partner?

Should your new partner help support you and your children?

Negotiating money and finances in a new relationship is tricky enough, but doubly so when you have dependent children to bring into the mix.

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Mums Tiana and Amy share their thrifty tips in the new book Saving Mum.

Thrifty tips for tough times

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Practice counting with money.

Money counting activity

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How to buy ethical kids' clothes

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Become a savvy school fundraiser

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Teen wins big.

Teen wins one million-dollars in the US Powerball

A last minute ticket saw 19-year-old Imari Shelton win one million dollars in the US Powerball.

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In your 40s and 50s you are more likely to have extra mouths to feed.

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Top 10 money mistakes of the middle-aged

You're at the height of your career and you probably have a couple of extra mouths to feed. Here are the 10 biggest money mistakes to avoid in your 40s and 50s.

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Jill Stewart used lay-by to budget for her kids' Christmas presents.

How to have a calm Christmas

You might think it's too early to think about Christmas but Jill Stewart would beg to differ.

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Shopping online is a welcome relief from the hassle of timing a trip to the supermarket between feeds and naps.

Coles v Woolies: which loyalty card scheme is better?

Woolworths' new customer loyalty scheme unveiled this week should be welcomed by most of the 9 million holders of Woolies' rewards cards.

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Barrister Bridie Nolan and her family at their Sydney home is happy to outsource all the things she has no time for.

One family's $6500 outsourcing bill

Outsourcing chores and errands is an increasingly popular option for time-poor families, though few would go as far as Sydney barrister Bridie Nolan.

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Many parents aren't confident when it comes to teaching money management skills.

How to teach kids about money

Over half of parents surveyed said they lack confidence in teaching their children money management skills.

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Drowning in stuff ... could you buy nothing for a month?

Seven tips to surviving Buy Nothing New Month

Tired of all the stuffocation in your life? A new challenge is asking parents to give up spending for a month.

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Australian schools are at a crossroads, says the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Should parent education levels and NAPLAN tests determine school funding?

For the first time in Australia's history, parent education levels and NAPLAN results will be taken into account when calculating funding levels.

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Kids want to be good with money.

Money-savvy children want financial literacy lessons in school

Kids want to be good with money, but few schools are teaching them.

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The piggy bank is filling up as Australian kids reap the rewards of generous - or guilty - parents.

KIDS AND MONEY

The great pocket money rip-off

Most parents give pocket money to their children, but very few of the kids do anything at all to earn it.

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Kim Sung Jin, 14, has a very respectable part-time income earned by filming himself eating.

Teen makes thousands by live-streaming himself eating

Well, this is a career path we hadn't previously considered (but we are now).

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