Instill Healthy Financial Skills in Your Children to Help Them Succeed

Ensuring your child is successful in the future is important to all parents, and one of the most important aspects of that is teaching them financial skills. One thing to start with when it comes to giving your children financial skills is explaining different coins and dollar bills to them.  For example: how many quarters make a dollar, how many nickels make a quarter, etc.

It’s also a good idea to start your child on an allowance as a way to teach them financial skills.  By giving them jobs they must accomplish each week and a set amount they will earn for those jobs, you are teaching the value of money as it relates to hard work.  It’s also a good idea to start talking about the difference between a want and a need when it comes to understanding financial skills. 

One of the most important financial skills for your child to learn is the value of saving money.  Helping them understand why you should save and how much will be crucial to their success in the future.  Your children will also need to understand the value of avoiding waste when it comes to good financial skills.  Things like turning off the lights when they leave a room can save money.

Giving your child the ability to purchase things they want with their allowance will also help them learn financial skills.  By setting an allowance amount that will force them to save for the items they want, while still making the item attainable, will be important to their financial skills and their future spending patterns.

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