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Not talking about money to your children to protect them: a big mistake

2021-01-22T13:28:34.229Z


INTERVIEW - In these times of crisis and uncertainty, now is more than ever the time to educate your children financially. How to make them aware of the value of money without distressing them? Elements of answer with a clinical psychologist.


Whether it is to buy a glitter pen, his first sneakers or a video game, children and teenagers alike excel in the art of using the parental wallet, with trembling lips and Puss in Boots' gaze.

How do you instill in them the real value of money and prevent them from turning into a cicada in adulthood?

With coins and bills donated here and there to fill a piggy bank?

Or by promising them access to the Holy Grail on bank account as soon as they come of age?

Read also: Investments, heritage, income ... How to manage your children's money?

Faced with the economic difficulties that we are currently experiencing, some parents think they are doing well and protecting their offspring for as long as possible against the future financial setbacks that await them, by keeping the subject silent.

A big mistake according to Béatrice Copper-Royer, clinical psychologist, specialist in childhood and adolescence, who pleads for a better learning of money from the outset of primary school.

MADAME FIGARO.

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Source: lefigaro

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