Finances

Teaching Your Teenager to Handle Money — What Generosity at Home Actually Looks Like

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-09-05 /

Your teenager has never once watched you decide to give something away. Not because you’re stingy — you give plenty, quietly, often automatically, a check written or a transfer made somewhere they’ll never see it happen. You’ve just never done it where they could actually watch, and a money lesson taught entirely in secret doesn’t…