My kids seem to be really open to the financial discussions we've been having over the last month since I've been taking the Personal Finance class at church. I came up with an idea tonight that may or may not be awesome. I labeled quart size bags with numbers 1-12. Then I spread out all the candy the kids had and each child filled 4 bags (this was just the older 3 kids). It was interesting to see how quickly G filled each bag with 18 pieces of chocolate while M was trying to get all the sweedish fish and gummy things. lP had 20 candies in one bag and 2 in the other bags. I reminded them that this candy was for everyone, not just for the person who filled the bag.
They seem genuinely excited by the idea that they will have candy all year from this one night of gathering. I'm very interested to see how this goes. Maybe this will be the story of disaster that comes from being too much of a control freak. I think it's good that I let them portion it out.
They understand that this candy is an option for weekly FHE treats. And I said that whatever is left at the end of the month, they can eat to celebrate. M piped in "Or we can save it toward future budgeting!" Yes my dear M. You can save it forever!
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