Comments on: Volunteering Opportunities for KC’s Kids!! http://www.kckidsfun.com/2009/11/volunteering-opportunities-for-kcs-kids/ Helping You Find Great Things to Do With Your Kids in Kansas City! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:11:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Teaching kids to save money is important too... http://www.kckidsfun.com/2009/11/volunteering-opportunities-for-kcs-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-1797 Teaching kids to save money is important too... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:16:28 +0000 http://www.kckidsfun.com/?p=1669#comment-1797 Couldn’t agree more, volunteering is important for all kids to do - it teaches valuable lessons and charity. Also important that is often overlooked, is teaching children about money. I’m not going to blame parents, schools, etc, but quite simply, I clearly “didn’t get it”, and I am still paying for those mistakes a decade later! And quite frankly, I hate the position I got myself in, everytime I pay off my past debts… I could have used my time/money sooooo much better. A program was suggested to me by a friend, that teaches kids to be responsible with money, and puts them in control of their money. It’s a fun, interactive booklet + personal website that makes tracking their money fun – more importantly, the tugs on the pantleg going through the grocery checkout and the tantrums have all but disappeared! I guess that’s a little self centered of me… but any parent knows those situations all to well. For the record, I too used to do this to my parents, I was apparently horrible to bring into a store… oops! If anyone is interested, the program is designed by KidsWealth: http://www.kidswealth.com (hope it’s OK to post URL, I put it in my comment description to). Just my .02c (no pun intended) !! Couldn’t agree more, volunteering is important for all kids to do – it teaches valuable lessons and charity. Also important that is often overlooked, is teaching children about money. I’m not going to blame parents, schools, etc, but quite simply, I clearly “didn’t get it”, and I am still paying for those mistakes a decade later! And quite frankly, I hate the position I got myself in, everytime I pay off my past debts… I could have used my time/money sooooo much better.

A program was suggested to me by a friend, that teaches kids to be responsible with money, and puts them in control of their money. It’s a fun, interactive booklet + personal website that makes tracking their money fun – more importantly, the tugs on the pantleg going through the grocery checkout and the tantrums have all but disappeared! I guess that’s a little self centered of me… but any parent knows those situations all to well. For the record, I too used to do this to my parents, I was apparently horrible to bring into a store… oops!

If anyone is interested, the program is designed by KidsWealth: http://www.kidswealth.com (hope it’s OK to post URL, I put it in my comment description to).

Just my .02c (no pun intended) !!

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