In a digital world, parents are rethinking the way they teach their children about money GlobeInvestor
At a time when kids flash plastic at the mall, buy phone apps with fingerprint technology and swipe city transit cards to ride the bus to school, one might be forgiven for thinking the coin-jingling Tooth Fairy seems a bit out of touch.
While the monetary landscape is changing, the way infants and young children learn about their world has not. Small kids still touch, taste, smell and manipulate objects to gather information and figure out how things work. It’s perhaps no small coincidence that children start learning abstract concepts such as math by counting fingers and toes.suggests there’s actually little point in jumping the gun and moving on to digital currency too early.
While Canada may be years away from being fully committed to creating a cashless society, parents and teachers are starting to note the difficulties of helping children and teens understand today’s monetary transactions. Ms. Carkner explains that educating her class of students with autism has also become challenging recently.“I’m trying to teach them money, but it’s really hard to teach them how much a dime is worth when they never see a dime,” she says.
Financial literacy educators are now focusing not so much on the nuts and bolts of transactions, but on the actual behaviour around how money is spent and saved. It’s about teaching kids how to delay gratification.
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