Money lessons that fit around real family life.
Free printables, activities, and conversation starters for kids and teens – pick your child’s stage below and start with one thing this week.
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Pick your child’s stage
Teens
Ages 13–18. Budgeting, first jobs, first paychecks, prom, and graduation money.
Kids
Ages 5–12. Allowance, chores, earning, saving challenges, and money conversations.
Teens
Free: the Teen Budget Worksheet
The one most parents start with – already used by 3,000+ teens.
- How to Budget as a Teenager
- Your Money Education End Goal: to Raise a Financially Resourceful Child
- How to Teach Your Teenager Financial Responsibility (Do This, Not That)
- Short-Term Financial Goals for High School Students
- Teen First Job Guide: How to Prepare for Your First Job as a Teen
- 7 Conversations to Have When Your Teen Gets their First Paycheck
- How to Teach Your Teenager the Value of Money
- 23 Powerful Money Challenges for Teens
- 5 Stock Apps for Teens (with Parental Controls)
- 7 Smart Ways to Spend Your Graduation Money (to Get Ahead)
- Free Teen Prom Budget Template
Kids
Free: the Chore + Allowance Calculator
Allowance, paid chores, both, or neither – how your family handles it is your call, and this works either way. Answer a few quick questions and get an age-appropriate number in about two minutes.
- How to Create Your Kid Money System
- 9 Simple Money Projects for Kids
- 100 Ways to Make Money as a Kid Under 13 (Besides a Lemonade Stand)
- 11 Easy Things Kids Can Make and Sell at School (Non-Food)
- Teaching Kids about Money (Must-Try, Age-by-Stage Money Activities)
- How Do You Raise a Financially Responsible Child? M&M Strategy.
- Should Kids Get an Allowance? Pros and Cons.
- Should Kids Get Paid to Do Chores? Pros and Cons.
- How Much Allowance Should I Give My Child? (Why $1/Year Isn’t It)
- How to Talk to Your Kids about Money
- 7 Stock Apps for Kids (Learn about & Start Investing)
- 7 Printable Money Saving Challenges for Kids
Teen Budget Binder
A guided binder that helps normalize money in your teen’s everyday life, instead of it being a lecture they tune out. Digital, so nothing arrives in the mail – and it comes with a bonus worth $4.97.
I'm Amanda L. Grossman, a Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI®), winner of the 2017 Plutus Foundation Grant to create a kid money program (the Mt. Everest Money Simulation: A Kid's Educational Adventure), and a 17-year personal finance blogger.
I specialize in teaching kids and teens real-world money management through hands-on financial education systems. My resources are used by parents, educators, and classrooms to teach financial literacy in a practical, engaging way.
Not only do I feel qualified to help you teach your kid(dos) and teens how to earn, save, and manage their money, but I darn well looooooovvvve these subjects.
Here's more about me.
