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.

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Visit the Kids' Money & More blog  for parent tips on how to help your kids be money smart.

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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 is
• What income and expenses are
• How to make a budget 
• How a budget helps us understand how we spend our money

Click here for Episode 8's  suggested follow up activities including the kids sample budget and parent talking points.

If you find value in this podcast please let your friends and family know about it!

If you would like to support Kids Money & More, you can contribute here!  https://ko-fi.com/kidsmoneyandmore

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 important
• The definition of a SMART goal
• Relatable examples of SMART saving goals

Click here for Episode 7's suggested follow up activities & the free printable: SMART saving goal checklist.

If you find value in this podcast and would like to support Kids Money & More, you can contribute here!  https://ko-fi.com/kidsmoneyandmore

Some of the values we want to teach our kids are generosity, kindness and thinking about others. 

In Episode 6, kids will hear about:

1. What fundraising is and how important it is.
2. Some fundraising ideas.
3. How everyone working together can make a really big difference.
4. A detailed example of our firefighters fundraising for charity.

Click here for Episode 6's suggested follow up activities

If you find value in this podcast and would like to support Kids Money & More, you can contribute here!  https://ko-fi.com/kidsmoneyandmore

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:

1. 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 same price.
2. How convenience and quality play a role in how we spend our money

Click here for Episode 5's  suggested follow up activities.

If you find value in this podcast and would like to support Kids Money & More, you can contribute here!  https://ko-fi.com/kidsmoneyandmore

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: 

1. Needs - things we can’t live without. 
2. Wants - things we would like to have, but we don’t need them to stay alive. 
3. We can’t have everything we want, so we have to make decisions everyday.  Some are easy and some are difficult.
4. Spending smart.  Thinking carefully about our options and making good decisions when thinking about needs and wants. 

Click here for Episode 4's suggested follow up activities.

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This episode focuses on spending, saving and donating.

In Episode 3, kids will hear about:

1. Splitting money we are given, for Spending, Saving & Donating.
2. Money isn't unlimited, so we should think very carefully about what we buy with it.
3. 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.
4. We should put some money aside for donations, so that we can help others who need it more than us. 

Click here for Episode 3's suggested follow up activities.

If you find value in this podcast and would like to support Kids Money & More, you can contribute here!  https://ko-fi.com/kidsmoneyandmore