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Teaching Kids About Finance By Sylvester Knox

Financial responsibility is part of the vital lessons that children learn from their parents. When teaching your children to become financially responsible adults, you should endeavor to use the right approach that guarantees effectiveness and efficiency in delivering hard-to-forget lessons. Here are some crucial tips for teaching your kids about financial responsibility.

Start Them Young
When teaching your children about becoming financially responsible, you should endeavor to start the lessons at a relatively young age. Starting teaching them about money at such a tender age makes them have the right foundational knowledge required for them to easily adopt later in life.

Gradual Lessons
Once you begin the lessons on financial responsibility, you should endeavor to start with the most basic knowledge about money and gradually advance to more complicated concepts. The most basic of the lessons should include issues such as the essence of money in daily life. Gradually advancing the complexity of the lessons ensures that children can progress their knowledge as they advance in age.

Lead by Example
While you teach your children, it is highly advisable to ensure that you set a good example by being a good steward of your money and a prudent financial planner. Children can easily remember concepts that they learn from seeing you practice as compared to the theoretical knowledge you equip them with. Involving them a bit in your financial practices such as creating a budget and saving coins in a piggy bank gives them sufficient tips or how to actualize the lessons they learn...
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Teaching Kids About Finance By Sylvester Knox
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Teaching Kids About Finance By Sylvester Knox

Sylvester Knox shares an excerpt from his blog "Tips for Teaching Kids About Financial Responsibility"

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