Teaching a kid to save money for their future is a big challenge on my part for the fact that I have no kids yet, but i have four loving nephews and one more to come. In their young minds together with their parents, we infuse with them the value of saving at an early age.
When I was a kid,I really enjoy saving and the act of it. The sounds brought by a penny drops into an empty canister of milk makes me feel anxious. Can't avoid the feelings that someday I'm gonna be a millionaire with that coins, hahaha! And to exaggerate the story about it,I always carry with me my coin canister even at school, until it was stolen by a girl classmate and later found the broken canister at girl's comfort room. I knew who the culprit was, but i kept on silence for the fear that my mother will get mad at me. She keeps on reminding me not to bring it on school for the possibility that it might get lost. What a stubborn and poor girl i was that time.
After so many years, that girl now a mother of three kids become my "kumare" for his son becomes my godson in baptism.She doesn't even know until this point in time that i knew she's the culprit. That incident will be left unearthed until my last breath.
Nevertheless those are piece of my childhood experience. I hope she might be able to teach her kids the value of saving money on their own and not to steal somebody's hard earn money.
That's why I am proud of my sisters that they were able to teach their sons the value of saving and now through electronic means. My nephews knew they have savings on their respective ATM's. Hope they will be able to save it until they knew the real value of their savings when time comes they have to spend it according to it's purpose. I'll cross my fingers then.
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