Beyond an Allowance: How to Engage Young Kids in Learning about Money
Submitted by Younity Wealth Partners on February 15th, 2017Updated: February 15th, 2017 by Kara Downing, CFP®
Remeber the early days in life when it seemed like everything in the candy aisle was free if you begged your parents long enough? There’s something beautifully unburdened in the way which children experience the world: recklessly present and innocently ambivalent. Teaching your children lessons about money from a young age won’t crush that. What it will do is to set them on a path to future financial freedom and success. Children’s monetary habits are formed as young as age seven, according to a report published by University of Cambridge researchers. That means your children are going to learn about how to treat their money from someone, and it’s better for that person to be you.