If you are looking for a non-textbook and very practical way to teach your teen financial management, why not consider turning over all of your household finances to your teen during his last two years of high school?  Pretty crazy idea, right?  But one family did just that, and you can read or listen to transcripts of the Homeschool Heartbeat to get the details of their novel approach of providing their children with important life skills in the area of money management.