Earn It Learn It
In today’s world it’s harder to teach your child the value of money. Balancing allowances has changed from when I was a kid. Do you struggle with teaching your children the value of money? As an adult we only get paid for working as children the idea’s sometimes muddy and children get paid for making their bed or taking out the trash. But are those the life lessons we want to teach our children. Alisa Weinstein believes that we must teach our children to “Earn it and Learn it”. A simple plan that is cleverly taught in her new book.
Earn it learn it
The Earn My Keep allowance program is designed to entertain the idea of, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. I ask my boys that every now and then. When I was a little girl, my answer was always a Pediatrician. Because I loved kids, still do and probably why I realized having them was a little more my style rather than diagnosing sick ones. Weinstein teaches you how to venture into a world of exploring careers with your children in a plan that working for your money is rewarding.
My sons and I have been following Wiensteins plan as part of our homeschooling. We have learned skills and ventured into new learning environments. For example we studied the job of an Urban Planner today. What does the job consist of? What does it take to become an Urban Planner? What careers cross paths with an Urban Planner? A day in the life of an Urban Planner? The book is full of careers, ideas and implementing teaching within each career. It makes learning fun and implements the way these people make money. Not by doing their bed, but by enhancing our community through different projects.