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Parenting Tip # 218

Help your children to use their allowances wisely. Teach them to divide the money for giving, saving, and spending. Along the way, teach them how to do a general budget to help cover their needs (such as toiletries) and wants (such as a game or an expensive item of clothing).

Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.