When it comes to teaching kids about money, the earlier you teach them the better.
On the podcast, I share my experiences from my own parenting and how we can set ourselves and our children up for financial success.
I would recommend that you strive to pay your children $0 in non-cash compensation. Let them purchase their own rewards.
On Friday, May 14, 2021, Megan Russell was interviewed by Michael Morton of Financial Planning for Entrepreneurs podcast.
To help you get a good financial start as parents, here’s a financial checklist for new parents.
The 2021 tax credit is worth $3,600 for children under age 6 and $3,000 for those under age 18. These rules apply to tax year 2021 only.
ABLE accounts offer people with disabilities a new opportunity to save and invest for the future.
An entrepreneur is valued for innovation. To innovate almost always requires failure first.
This is a common confusion with Roth IRAs.
My favorite part of my daughter’s Roth IRA is that she has earned it all. I have seen her work hard, learn valuable lessons, and truly earn her wage.
Here are some options for helping your child purchase their first home.
By flowing money through a 529 account, a Virginia tax payer could receive a $575 discount on their private school tuition.
On Monday, October 26, 2020, Megan Russell was interviewed by Sunny Burns and Sunmarie Burns of the FamVestor podcast.
Individuals with more than $5M may be served well from gifting to utilize the higher estate exclusions before they sunset.
You can transfer up or across the family tree. However, if you want to transfer down a family tree, you can run into taxation problems.
Don’t let stress about tax filing requirements keep you or your child from a powerful opportunity to provide for their future.
I do not need to file Schedule H and imagine that most parent household employers also do not need to file this schedule.
My daughter was employed at her first job, earned her first income, and was able to fund her Roth IRA for the first time.
For domestic tasks like babysitting there are often two options: independent contractor or household employee. Taking the time to educate yourself on the difference may be worth your while.
Your child may be in the thick of feeling out a boundary line by testing all your limits, but it pays off to be patient and trust that they will learn and they will listen.
There are many opportunities to pay your children. If that payment can be counted as earned income, then the child is eligible to fund their Roth IRA.
Here’s some advice from one daughter employee to a would-be parent employer.
Much can be learned from your earliest money memories. Here are some of mine.
With a bit of planning, you can make the practical gift very personal.
If you have to choose between your retirement or your children’s college savings, choose your retirement.
As the parent, it can be hard to know what to do with a cash gift for a baby.
Families that consider generational financial planning techniques can reduce the burden of taxes on the family as a whole.
Taking the smallest distribution each year will ensure the beneficiary achieves the maximum tax-free growth of tax-free income.
The IRS does not require dependents whose gross income is only earned income to file a tax return if the amount is less than a certain amount.
Here are ten principles for teaching children about money.
If a budget isn’t a team effort, one member of the family will hold the purse strings and everyone else will be resentful.
Most people are unaware that giving a gift can be a taxable event because they themselves have not yet experienced the tax.
Give your children experience spending their own money.
For children with lower incomes, there is an opportunity to give them appreciated stock to shift the capital gains to a lower tax bracket.
The kiddie tax was first added to the tax code in 1986 for children under age 14. Now, it can burden them until they are 23.
The beauty of trusts is that they are very flexible, and an estate lawyer can help you craft a document that will follow your wishes and give you peace of mind.
Financial Christmas gifts don’t need to be a piggy bank. They can be more serious and more meaningful than that.
Someone has to be proactive about your child’s retirement and every year you don’t open a retirement account is another year you’re holding back compound interest.
Financial planning means supporting the goals of stay-at-home parents to be with their children.
We teach teenagers a lot more about sexuality than we do about money. This can confuse them about what they should be learning. Give this article to a teenager and encourage him or her to start a Roth IRA.
Debt burdens are relative. For example, a $58k college debt will feel doable to a doctor making $100k+ per year and overwhelming to a lower wage employee. A degree should not cost more than your future earning power will sustain.
The 85-year-old Palo Alto patriarch has turned helping his 10 grandchildren into a hobby that has paid off for multiple generations.
My money has value because I have values my money helps me achieve. In this season of New Year’s resolutions and old year evaluations, treat your imagination with the question: What’s the money for?
To interest me, a game must have a simple but thought-provoking premise that allows for deep strategy. I’d never played Farmville but decided to recently because the parent company, Zynga, is going public this Thursday, December 15, 2011.
With impulses reeling, it is easy to find a gift that children will appreciate but difficult to find one that they will love to have. The gifts that I loved to have and the presents that I still cherish are the vocational gifts that my parents purchased for me.
Fun has no price tag and cannot simply be ordered online plus $3.99 shipping and handling. It’s true that money can enable experience but it cannot replace it. There is an art to having fun and it needs to be taught.
Often times I wouldn’t buy for myself what my parents thought was needed. Items my parents thought were essential for me to own were purchased by them.
Although sock drawers might be able to protect wealth from physical thieves, inflation is the dastardly villain who will raid it. As a child, I did not know of such economic forces let alone that they had an influence on my humble stash.
One reason that many people buy things that they could have done without is “functional fixedness.” Teach children to prevent unnecessary purchases by making efforts to help them see other possible uses of owned objects.
My dad taught me the opportunity cost of a Barbie airplane, or what alternative opportunities I would be giving up when I bought it, like buying twelve Barbies.
For cheap or limited edition items, desire needs to undergo a trial other than the test of time and the Wait a Week principle should be modified.