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Seven Tips for Teaching Financial Values
 
Teach values through small doses of financial education for preschoolers and increase doses as children get older:
 
1. Answer questions in a forthright and age-appropriate manner.
   
2. Tell children only as much as they need to know and are able to absorb.
   
3. Establish allowances with portions dedicated to savings, charity and spending.
   
4. Start an investment club, giving older children several thousand dollars to manage.
   
5. Set up an internal family bank to provide venture capital for members who want to start a business. Rather than depleting family wealth, this increases it and fosters enterprise.
   
6. Establish a family foundation to give grants to individuals and nonprofit groups. Give younger children the opportunity to determine how to disburse small ($100) donations.
   
7. Give adult children discretion over a larger trust fund with the help of a financial advisor.
   
   
 
 
Source: Laura Kastner, Raising Healthy Children in Families of Affluence, 2007.
 
 
   
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