We know that core behaviours around money are already established by the age of seven, so it is important to open conversations with children about money from an early age and help them to cultivate positive habits. Here are a list of fiction and non fiction books that can prompt family chat and give young people accurate information about finance.
Building strong financial habits in children and cultivating an understanding of the importance of money is crucial. Here are our top tips for easy ways to integrate financial education at home.
It is important to cultivate children and young people’s financial literacy. Developing an understanding and vocabulary around money will help them to make better decisions as they gain financial independence. Our fun family finance quiz questions will introduce some new terms and provoke discussions about good and bad money management.
It is important to cultivate children’s and young people’s financial literacy. Developing an understanding and vocabulary around money will help them to make better decisions as they gain financial independence. Our fun finance quiz game, designed to be printed and made into quiz cards, will introduce some new terms and provoke discussions about good and bad money management. It will work brilliantly either at home to test your family’s financial know-how, or in the classroom, as part of financial education lessons.
In this podcast, Dr Weston talks with Anna Hemmings and Megan Pengelly of GamCare about the importance of teaching young people about gambling, to enable them to make informed choices about this common risk-taking behaviour.
