The Best Ways To Teach Children About Money Now

By Mark Stevens


Kids money is important. A child will have an opportunity to learn about saving and spending equally when they have their own. Children will, hopefully, learn how to handle it responsibly over time. When they are given an opportunity to earn, youngsters will have been given a means to learn skills to manage it for life.

Earning it gives youngsters a sense of pride and a sense of accomplishment. It also helps support their feelings of self worth. As a child grows, their ability to earn grows with them.

Room tidying, laundry gathering, putting away freshly laundered clothes, taking dishes out of the dishwasher or drying dishes are chores which can be assigned to very young children. When these chores are assigned and completed on a weekly or daily schedule, financial remuneration provides young ones with self-respect, a sense of accomplishment and responsibility.

Their services and time are worthy of respect and they learn this at an early age. Children also learn to respect the work of others when they can earn wages by mowing lawns, shovelling snow from driveways and sidewalks or managing paper routes. They learn that a job well done deserves monetary payment regardless of who is doing the job.

A child can save their pay in a piggy bank in their room. They can save it in a bank account. Even a 5-year old child will feel very grown up with their very own bank account, held in their own name. It would be wise to open a savings account only for a young child, so they can watch their account grow with every deposit.

Kids money is cherished when a child has been given the opportunity to earn it and spend it wisely over the years. Equal spending and saving is learned as a gradual process which they will learn to appreciate as they grow.




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