Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space
Jul 16, 2026 · 35 min · 14 segments
Finances are central to life and the learning largely needs to happen at home. In this episode brought forth from the locked archive, Christine and Asha share 9 ways to teach kids about money. For…
Christine KohHost
Asha DornfestHost
This is so important and it's something so many people struggle with and we've struggled with in our own family.
And I wanted to say that today's episode has been on our brainstorming list, but was bumped up in the queue thanks to listener Brayden, who is actually somebody I know.
But she's an avid listener from New York, and she wrote in to ask us to cover allowance and chores and teaching kids about finances.
And this is a topic I've personally given a lot of thought, thought a lot about because I've had some baggage around money.
And I've needed to work through it as a parent, you know, now being in a place of relative abundance, but having grown up with very little, and I'm sure lots of people can relate to that experience.
Um, when I was a kid, there was no such thing as allowance and my parents owned a mom and pop shop where we worked for a long time, um, without any sort of compensation discussion.
And, um, you know, I'm curious, Sasha, what you were growing up was like, you know, did you have allowance? How did, how did those things work?
And so, you know, while my parents are pretty strict, there was also a lot of latitude, I would say, in our family, in our day to day life.
But it was was also understood that I would do the chores, whether or not they paid me.
So those chores were my responsibilities and the getting paid part was sort of like a bonus.
I think, you know, I just, we didn't talk, we didn't seem to talk about it much, but yeah, I think it was, it was part of my life, not a huge part, but it was there.
This is so important and it's something so many people struggle with and we've struggled with in our own family.
And I wanted to say that today's episode has been on our brainstorming list, but was bumped up in the queue thanks to listener Brayden, who is actually somebody I know.
But she's an avid listener from New York, and she wrote in to ask us to cover allowance and chores and teaching kids about finances.
And this is a topic I've personally given a lot of thought, thought a lot about because I've had some baggage around money.
And I've needed to work through it as a parent, you know, now being in a place of relative abundance, but having grown up with very little, and I'm sure lots of people can relate to that experience.
Um, when I was a kid, there was no such thing as allowance and my parents owned a mom and pop shop where we worked for a long time, um, without any sort of compensation discussion.
And, um, you know, I'm curious, Sasha, what you were growing up was like, you know, did you have allowance? How did, how did those things work?
And so, you know, while my parents are pretty strict, there was also a lot of latitude, I would say, in our family, in our day to day life.
But it was was also understood that I would do the chores, whether or not they paid me.
So those chores were my responsibilities and the getting paid part was sort of like a bonus.
I think, you know, I just, we didn't talk, we didn't seem to talk about it much, but yeah, I think it was, it was part of my life, not a huge part, but it was there.
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