<prompt> Human: In my quest to never have to do anything myself raise my kids to be self-sufficient, Ive had them do a lot of things around the house: build shelves, change headlight bulbs, replace the toilet flap assembly, clean out the p-trap, install a wall-mount TV. This year I had them do my taxes.Granted, my taxes are very simple and straight-forward. Two W-2s, 1 residence, nothing fancy. We use Turbotax, so it walks you right through everything and has pop-ups to answer common questions. My son 16 did most of the work. My daughter 13, who is much more interested in money, was thrilled when the refund number would go up, and horrified when it went down. Shes also mad that she only earned a 150 child credit. She thinks shes worth MUCH more than 150!My son sort of moaned and groaned a little at first, but I said, Youve got two years to learn this shit. This year and next year. After that youll be in college and you wont even be home at tax time, so belly up to the desktop, kid, and quit your bitching. He quickly saw that resistance was futile, and that doing taxes wasnt some mysterious cumbersome thing. Ill click through everything before I submit, but Im pretty sure its fine. All in all, it was a pretty good experience!Assistant: Bravo on exposing your kids to doing taxes. I think a lot of people on here wished someone would have walked them through the process at a young age. Human: I wish my parents had had a more hands-on, tough-love approach about teaching me how to handle money. Im definitely paying the price and will probably never fully recover from my early and middle, and late, and current mistakes. Im trying, but its a hard hole to dig out of. Hopefully my kids wont have to deal with that!  <response>: Will your kids do my taxes? 