The Value of Teaching Children How to Save
When I was young, I actually get what I want. Not that I am a spoiled brat but being away from my parents and living with my grandparents made my them think that their absence can be substituted by a fairly good allowance (though it was not given directly to me but to my grandma). I never had the chance to learn how to save for I know very well that whenever I need money, I can get it. And I grew up thinking that I can always have money whenever I want. That became my worst attitude.
The following day, I bought my kids a piggy bank which they named “Piglet”. They were so excited and thought it was a toy. I explained that it was where they will keep their money. We also stressed that money is not just for buying stuffs but for saving as well. My husband and I agreed that we will give them 5-peso and 10-peso coins every day for them to put inside Piglet. After a month, the kids changed their perception on 5-peso and 10-peso coins. They now call it “money for Piglet” and there were only a few occurrences of them wanting to buy plastic balloons, toy guns, live chicks, live fish and a lot more. They have understand the first lesson – “Buy the toy for 5-pesos, lose the money and nothing for Piglet OR play with all the toys they got and give the coin to Piglet”. They actually loved putting in coins into Piglet!
Effective? I’d say, yes!
Teaching children how to save money will surely help them to have financial literacy in the future. In fact, according to financial experts, it is never too early to teach them how to save money but if you don’t act early, it could be too late.
My experience is one thing I don’t want my children to have. So as soon as I realized, I did not procrastinate, instead, I immediately took note and acted on the situation before it gets worst.
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Hi Mye,
I can relate to your post. My 4 yr old son also have a a coin bank. Everyday, we gave him our extra coins and let him drop on his improvised coin bank. We told him that he will open it once its full and buy his stuff for his school supplies once he attend day care school by June.
We also remind him to on how to be discipline in spending money specially when he want to always buy toys. I agree that children must be teach early to spend money wisely
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@vlad
thanks for dropping by. im glad your child is also learning to save. though we may not see the results now but in the future, it will surely help them on managing their finances
@amy
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Great tip, still a long way before we can teach it to our baby (she’s just 5 month old
hi vhincent – thanks for dropping by. yeah, 5months is still so young but as soon as you discover she’s ready…you can start ^_^