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Any child with earned income from a job, babysitting, or mowing lawns can have a custodial Roth IRA, and you can contribute whatever they earned, up to the annual IRA limit. Money invested at 15 has half a century to compound tax-free. Open one the first summer your kid earns a paycheck.
If you already have a Chase checking account and a kid between 6 and 12, open a Chase First Banking account. It costs nothing, gives your child a debit card you fully control, and turns allowance and chores into automatic money lessons in the Chase app.
Schools today just aren’t doing enough to teach young people the facts of financial life. If you don’t believe it, just ask the young people. In a 2021 Junior Achievement survey (via CNBC), over 60% of teens said they hadn’t…
There are many ways to teach kids about money, but the best way is to open the right bank accounts for kids and let them get a hands-on lesson on managing money. It might feel weird at first to let…
If your child is one of the millions of college freshmen headed off to school, your August might be packed with shopping, gathering textbooks, and packing up entire rooms. And while picking out the perfect dorm decor might seem important,…
Wondering at what age can you open a bank account for your child? Back when most of us were younger, we didn’t discuss money. You probably had no idea how much money your parents made. You didn’t care if your…
If you want your kids to grow into wealthy, financially literate adults, you’re going to have to teach them about money yourself. I grew up in a middle-class household with well-educated parents. But despite their parenting strengths, I had to…
I worked steadily through high school and college. I held a steady succession of mostly menial, mostly entry-level jobs: grocery store cashier, movie theater attendant, youth sports official, food delivery driver. My motivations were largely financial. During high school, I…
If you fly, even on occasion, you’ve probably been seated within earshot of a screaming infant. Whether you dealt with the unwelcome aural intrusion by donning noise-canceling headphones or simply pretending it wasn’t happening, you took solace in the fact that it wasn’t…
Back when I was little, new parents had just one choice to make about diapers. They could use plain white cotton diapers, secured with safety pins and covered in plastic pants to protect against leaks, or they could use bulky, expensive…
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