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

  • Written by: Rachael Sharman, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
How do I tell my kids we are currently short on money – without freaking them out?Pexels/Pavel Danilyuk, CC BY

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...

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