Kids & Money: Crash Course on Budgets at the Zoo
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Not sure how to get your kids to understand budgets without boring them? Learn how a trip to the zoo gave our six-year-old a (fun) crash course on money!
Kids and Money
What happens when you put your 6-year-old in charge of the money? We ran a real-life experiment to help our daughter learn about managing money
In this episode we get into:
- getting comfortable talking about money with your kid
- how to let your kid learn about money without giving a lecture
- working together to pass on money lessons
Hope you enjoy!
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Helpful Resources for Kids and Money
If you’re trying to figure out a system that can work for your family, here are a few resources to check out:
- 6 Tips for Building the Charitable Giving Muscle with Your Kids
- 5 Reasons I Don’t Buy Toys for My Kids
- 5 Ways to Teach Kids Money Principles
- Tips For Giving Kids an Allowance
- The Opposite of Spoiled: Teaching Kids about Money (and More)
- Boost Your Kid’s Money IQ with a Simple Spreadsheet
- 29 Tips for Teaching Your Kids to Stack Benjamins from Joe, Tai, Len, and Bill
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Music Credit
Like the music in this episode? Our theme song is by Gentle Regime. Additional music by Lee Rosevere and Logan from Music for Makers in this episode.