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As mentioned in previous blogs, it is important that your child’s allowance (or payment) is divided into three accounts: savings, spending and donations. The money that is “deposited” in each of these accounts should be respected in order to establish a positive habit of creating a healthy financial budget. In this post we’re going to [...]

(This interview was translated from our Spanish blog: http://bit.ly/VYXEBq) Karla Flores, economist and mother, “When children do household chores, they learn that things in life aren’t handed over on a silver platter.” Many parents struggle with setting up an allowance system. They aren’t sure about when to start, if it should be it a fixed amount [...]

Once upon a time there were three little pigs that lived in the forest named Spending, Debt and Savings. Spending wanted the good life—so he decided to buy a 60” TV with a killer audio system, a stereo, an Xbox and build a pool among other things. After he finished buying everything he wanted for [...]

Does a $15 tank top have the same value as a cute $15 dress? Is a challenging, well-designed $45 video game that you worked hard to earn as valuable as a boring $45 golf game gifted to you by your strange aunt? Of course not! Value isn’t just what something costs; it’s what something is [...]

After a month of intense work, AgentPiggy, the first platform for Latin American children, was selected from 750 competing projects as one of the ten Wayra Chile winners. Wayra Chile is a competition for innovative and entrepreneurial projects. This recognition gives AgentPiggy the opportunity to receive $30,000 to $70,000 of funding, marketing and logistical support [...]

Part of the reason we started AgentPiggy is because we feel as though there has been a lack of financial education in the school system. Today, while economics is a requirement for most students, only 4 states require a semester of personal finance education according to Jump Start Coalition. Our students are graduating without the [...]