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Anyway, today let me share another great article on teaching our kids to save money. If you find my post about Ways to Teach Our Kids to Save Money helpful, then this is a must read too.
More than a year ago, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas launched a financial literacy campaign that targeted kids as young as six years old. The endeavor called Banking on Your Future, aims to start kids early on the path of savings, teach them the value of putting money in the bank, and eventually, create future generations of money-savvy adults. In partnership with the country's biggest banking institutions and the Department of Education, Banking on Your Future allows parents to open up account for kids with a minimum deposit as low as PHP 100.00.
Since there are programs like this that teach awareness to kids to
become future savers, as parents how can you help them see the importance of
saving money?
DO'S
Teach them the value of saving by
giving concrete examples
It’s easy to tell stories to your kids to
imply the significance of savings, however its better if they can see a real
life example. For instance, you're running low on money for food, you can share
to your kids the importance of having a savings account during tight
times. Realistic scenarios will have
more bearing on them as opposed to concocting stories about saving.
Include them in the process of saving
Nothing beats the power of engagement when it comes to teaching your
kids on how to save money. It pays to
include them in the process, instead of just telling them that you’re saving
for their future let them be involve in the process. Take them on occasional trip to the banks and
let them experience on how depositing money works. After all, the bigger goal
of the whole activity is teaching them the habit of saving money, not just to
make an account under their name.
DON'TS
Hide your financial problems from
them
Teaching your kids something is more than
just telling about butterflies and rainbows; at times, you have to share
tragedies as well as cautionary tales in the process to make sure that lessons
will have a great impression in them. If you want your kids to fully understand
the gravity of having a savings account, let them know the financial hardships
of the family and how savings account play an important role in that. Let them
know that it affects them as well, and that they will remember those lessons
very well.
Take away their choice to save or
spend
The problem with some parents is that they
coerce their kids into saving, a very dangerous act that may deviate them from
what they actually intend to teach them. To make sure that saving will be a
conscious choice rather than a mandate, let them know that the money you are
giving them can either go to the bank or can go to unnecessary expenses. If
they start to save out of their own free will, then you are successful in
imbibing them a sense of financial responsibility by saving money.
There are many ways you can let your child
save money, but the main point would be the habit of saving money should always
go over the money itself. When they grow up, they will have this invaluable
lesson that not even money can buy.
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