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She's starting to get teased by the other kids for all sorts of things - that's as good a reason as any to try and convince her to wear clothes like the other kids wear. Not so bad when they're little, but she's tweenage now and is starting to get self-conscious. She's really weird in a lot of...

I can't take mine clothes shopping for what *she* wants. The clothes she wants to wear aren't in her size anymore, so she gravitates to the 1-3 and 3-7 size stuff (all frilly pink barbie branded) and I have to literally force her to wear anything from the shops in her size - 10, where its all...

Mine spent most of 2007 wanting a 3 storey house in Perth. Then it was a ride on horse (the sort that cost $400 - Santa got her a $20 hobby horse because she wasn't specific enough and she seems happy with it) Then it was a pink rug that she never put away a penny for because she always...

Even non-financial computer games can get up your money smarts. A lot of strategy games need you to earn money before you can spend money, or have proper economies and so forth. Big online games like Eve have incredible detail in them. I couldn't recommend any offhand (Eve is inappropriate for...

Ah, but there's always *someone* who was making lemonade from lemons they swiped from someone's tree and selling it at a profit from the age of 6, then went onto selling cans they bought for $1 at the supermarket for $2 at the school and then got their first investment property in cash the day...

I'm still at a loss how to get mine to work for money. I had a brief burst of getting her to do jobs for money (after 6 weeks of not doing them and reminding her that she's behind by $66 now so how is she going to get a Wii). People keep giving her things and money so she doesn't *need* to work...