Topic

children

2 pieces, newest first.

Aug 24Accounts

The Cost of the Sports Kid

The fees are the part you see. Eleven families tracked a full season of one child's sport, and the fees came to under a third of it — the rest was travel, equipment, replacement equipment, and the meals eaten in a car.

Marcus Whitfield2 min

Aug 14Dependents

Allowance in a House With No Cash In It

The classic allowance ran on coins in a jar, and the jar taught a child something a balance on a screen does not. Fourteen households on what they replaced it with, and which replacements a child could actually explain.

Priya Raman3 min