Kids Money and More- The MONEY podcast for KIDS!

We don’t keep all of the money we earn in our wallets or at home. So where does it all go? Why do we put it there? How does it get there? In this episode, kids will hear us talk about:What a bank is.What a deposit is.Why we keep our money in a bank.Bank accounts.How we deposit money - cash and online deposits.Follow us on Instagram @kidsmoneyandmore for kids' money smart tips and to see what we're up to! Visit the Kids' Money & More blog for parent tips on how to hel...

Knowing how to budget is useful in various aspects of life, not just when it comes to money. We budget time, money and resources on a daily basis to help us effectively manage what we have. Let’s show our kids how to do the same by teaching them this valuable life skill.In this episode, kids will hear us talk about:What a budget isWhat income and expenses areHow to make a budget How a budget helps us understand how we spend our moneyClick here for Episode 8's suggested follow up ac...

Whether it’s at school, in their future job or for personal reasons, our kids need to know how to set goals for what they want to achieve. If your kids have been stashing away money from their birthday, the tooth fairy or their allowance, what are they saving for? When the time comes for spending that money, we want them to be SMART about it. So this episode is all about SMART saving goals. In this episode, kids will hear us talk about:What goals are and why they’re impo...

In this episode, we talk about being quarantined with siblings and trying to feel less annoyed with them. Doing school work online. Having a routine, but being flexible too. A reminder about having good habits.

In this episode I talk about different work scenarios that some parents are currently facing and some challenges being faced including loss of earnings and frustrating situations.

Some of the values we want to teach our kids are generosity, kindness and thinking about others. In Episode 6, kids will hear about:What fundraising is and how important it is.Some fundraising ideas.How everyone working together can make a really big difference.A detailed example of our firefighters fundraising for charity.Click here for Episode 6's suggested follow up activitiesIf you find value in this podcast and would like to support Kids Money & More, you can contribute her...

In this episode, I talk about the WHY behind big changes happening in our lives right now. I discuss what Coronavirus is and why hospitals are getting so overwhelmed.

Money isn't unlimited and we need to make it stretch as far as we can. Getting good value for our money for things we buy, is important and sometimes it can be as simple as shopping at a different store or even just by looking at other items on the same shelf. In Episode 5, kids will hear about:Different examples of getting good value for money including a) how something can cost less for the exact same thing in a different store and b) how you can get more of something for the sam...

Making decisions can be a tricky process for us and our kids. It’s important to understand the difference between needs and wants, so that we spend smart and make good decisions. In Episode 4, kids will hear about: Needs - things we can’t live without. Wants - things we would like to have, but we don’t need them to stay alive. We can’t have everything we want, so we have to make decisions everyday. Some are easy and some are difficult.Spending smart. Thin...

This episode focuses on spending, saving and donating.In Episode 3, kids will hear about:Splitting money we are given, for Spending, Saving & Donating.Money isn't unlimited, so we should think very carefully about what we buy with it.That a habit is something we do without thinking and we should make saving money a habit from now, so that it's easy to do as we get older.We should put some money aside for donations, so that we can help others who need it more than us. Click here for E...