Teaching Children
About Money
Learning how to
handle money responsibly was a value my wife and I wanted to pass on to our
three children. Yet, where does one go
for appropriate “curriculum” for such teaching?
We decided to develop our own system.
Among the values related to money management that we wanted to teach
were:
- Learning to give to God and others.
- Learning to
save.
- Learning to
spend responsibly.
As a fundamental
learning experience, we provided each of our children with three banks, as soon
as they were old enough to receive money of their own. One was the “spending” bank. One was the “saving” bank. One bank was for “giving.” The kids were urged to divide whatever money
they receive among the banks. And this
they did without complaint.
The plan worked
beautifully for a number of years, until one day my oldest son came home from
Sunday school.
Facing me, Chris
declared, “Dad, you’ve been lying to me!”
I couldn’t imagine what he was talking about!
“You’ve always told
me I should give away one third of my money.
Today in Sunday school, they told us to give only 10 percent!”
By: Wayne Barrett
The Abingdon Guide to
Funding Ministry, Vol. 2
by Donald W. Joiner and Norma Wimberly
Copyright 1996 by
Abingdon Press
God Is Still In Control!
Miss Lladale Carey
Web Content Producer
www.umcgiving.org
lcarey@umcom.org
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