Teaching Your Kids the Value of Money

My questions for this article came when my now 4 year old was about 18 month old. We were at the Grocery check out line and I pulled out my wallet and HE grabbed my card and swiped it through the machine

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Publish date:: Jul 12, 2011
Updated on: Nov 16, 2018

Megan Harris shares:

What age is a good age?

My questions for this article came when my now 4 year old was about 18 month old. We were at the Grocery check out line and I pulled out my wallet and HE grabbed my card and swiped it through the machine. The cashier asked me how hold he was and I was still in amazement said 18 months. So my question is, when is it the right time to teach our kids the value of money?

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