Posts about: money worries

How do I tell my kids we are currently short on money – without freaking them out?

How do I tell my kids we are currently short on money – without freaking them out?

I was a teenager during Australia’s 1990s “recession we had to have”, and remember clearly a friend asking his dad for some money to go to the movies. With equal parts frustration and resignation, the dad explained he’d been retrenched and wasn’t certain employment was on the horizon in his near future. So he really […]…