There is the first piggy bank, and then the money deposited by the little mouse, the first sub earned babysitting ... throughout its early years, the child will slowly make the learning of 'money. How can we provide the best support?
There is the first piggy bank, and then the money deposited by the little mouse, the first sub earned babysitting ... throughout its early years, the child will slowly make the learning of 'money. How can we provide the best support?
At the age of 5 or 6 years, the child often has some money concepts. Indeed, he accompanied his parents in stores, sees his father to buy bread at the bakery, or the mother give a room to a person on the street. At home we play to the market, we exchange a plastic part against false tomato.
"The child may have early money concepts, explains Alexia Delrieu, author of Money in the collection The world today told to children, Gallimard Jeunesse. But at 9 or 10 years, can still ask very naive questions. the child knows parents earn money by working, and that money is used to buy things they need to live, but concepts such as credit card, bank account or checkbook can escape them completely. "
The value of work
If he does not try to tell everything to a child and save her money worries his parents, though some messages may be transmitted earlier. This is essentially to make them understand that money does not grow on trees - or in this case does not come out of the wall when it comes to a distributor - and parents work to earn that money. "Parents can quite understood that no money without working, Alexia Delrieu added. Likewise, we can quite relate this concept of money to the value of things. Parents should not feel guilty - when the child broke a toy - to explain that this toy has cost money to parents. "
Each parent will find its balance, to say with his words to her child that the money is going, of course, but it does not bring happiness, as the saying goes. "It is good to explain that we do not necessarily need a lot of money to live. Likewise, it is important to say that when parents go to work the morning is to win money ... but not only. "
The first pocket money
At what age can one give the first pocket money? "I think the child should be the applicant, said Alexia Delrieu. If there are parts that end up in a box in the middle of the small car is that it is perhaps a little young to have her first sub . "
Later, the teenager will earn his pocket money selling thrush or making child guards. "This teaches him, again, the value of things and resourcefulness. However, parents should not erect the small system work. If there's a math test the next day, that is control premium . And it is for parents to meet the child's needs. "