Monday, March 28, 2011  Should Your Kids Get An Allowance?  Most
money experts agree that children should be given an allowance
in order to learn financial skills at an early age. I disagree.
Children should earn money just like we do. And, most
importantly they must be taught what to do with the money once
they receive it. I speak on high school and college campuses
monthly and to my astonishment, I meet young people who have
never worked a day in their lives. At the age of 21 years old
there are people in this world who still believe for some reason
that money either really is grown on trees or that it magically
falls from the clouds. There is a distinct disconnect between
young people and the concept of earning money.  We have created
a sickly bunch of young people. Their ailment? A false sense of
entitlement. They’ve been poisoned by privileges afforded to
them by parents who “don’t want their kids to go through what
they went through.” If that be the case, we should use our
experiences to empower our chi