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Re:The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of go... by jjeaff on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:48PM (#31064354)
Not saving comes natural to most people. Learning to save is the hard part. Most children don't ever make enough money that saving would make financial sense. The reality is, teaching kids to save their money is more a lesson in delayed gratification than it is a financial lesson.
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Re:The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of go... by makeitdouble on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:21PM (#31066998)
This is true for many children, but there’s a also a lot of kids who are too afraid to spend and enjoy their money.

It is I think as important to teach children how to spend their money, on what, and get them used to understand how much they got for their money.

As a kid I saved for a long time to buy an Atari Jaguar, and it was a eye opener looking back at the “sacrifices” I made for that result.

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