How do you teach kids about money?
How do you teach the children about money? This is hard to begin with but if you have poor management skills to begin with it is even harder. This Horizons group, thanks to the efforts of Janie Jung, Pat Beaver and the local school are going to tackle this problem. Janie found the game “Cash Flow” and brought it to the director asking the group to purchase it and she would teach it to the children. Pat Beaver volunteered her family to be the guinea pigs over Easter weekend; and thank goodness she did. The game is more involved then the advertisements lead you to believe. Janie then took the game is and hooking up with the 21st century/ boys and girls club to “play” the game after-school at the school. This will give the kids a snack, and Janie a stipend to play it with them. So all are happy so far! We will keep you posted. I, personally, plan on playing a few rounds to try and pick up some better habits. May I will be the next millionaire in Rolette…… wait maybe I would be the first….Ha! Ha!
April 12th, 2008 at 8:54 am
This may be more that just a fun game. In my work, I find most single individuals regardless of age, do not have even a savings account let alone a checking account. That implies a lot of things to me about how they plan, live and function in our society. Especially the young adults who see no value in doing so. Maybe the game will inspire a few persons to rethink how they organize theirselves. I am interested in playing it just to see. Tim