Dear Money Doctor^®, my Financial Advice is:

Discuss your family’s budget at dinner

My story behind the advice is:

Financial life lessons were usually on the menu for dinner at our house.  We learned to share our family budget with the children at dinner, such as how we made purchase decisions, how we planned for trips and what our monthly costs were.  When the kids were young, we would ask them to guess how much parts of our budget cost.