Teaching Children With Coupons - 7 Benefits
Teaching your children with coupons can help their understanding grow regarding money. Many merchants make coupons available to consumers as a way to provide incentives to try their products. Kids can benefit from you teaching them with coupons. Here are 7 benefits realized when helping children learn with coupons.
1. Thriftiness. Coupons can save some families $100’s of dollars every month. Being frugal is a major component in financial prosperity. Children learn that money can be saved with coupons and also the importance of making good purchases.
2. Color identification. While you flip through the Sunday paper looking for your coupons, name the different colors. Your smaller kids will really enjoy this. The paper tends to be flashy as advertiser try to catch your eye. Use this to your advantage when you are teaching your children their colors.
3. Time management. Every good “couponer” has a folder to keep them all in. Show your kids how they can help by throwing away old coupons and categorizing them correctly. Many people use organizers for other purposes as well so this will be a great introduction for your children.
4. Mathematics. Your children’s math skills will really be enhanced while they learn to use coupons. Teach them to subtract the amount of the coupon from the price of products. Also they can quickly discover what deals are really deals by comparing different offers.
5. Calendars. Coupons usually have expiration dates and it is important to keep track of them. You can get a calendar for each one of your children for free at most banks and credit unions. Show them how to find the dates on the coupons and then in the calendars. You kids will really develop an interest in a calendar when they discover Christmas and their birthdays.
6. Share the savings with your kids. When you are able to save money with coupons your children find, let them keep part of it. This will give them an incentive to help with your coupon efforts.
7. Variety. Without coupons your meals can become very ordinary. Clipping coupons will expand your menu because you will be trying new products on a regular basis. Children thrive on variety as their minds can never get enough input. Take a chance and buy a few things each month you do not normally buy when you find a coupon for it. Your kids will love this.
Teaching your children with coupons will be a benefit to them and to yourself. Clipping coupons is a labor intensive process. If your kids are helping you then the job will be more enjoyable. Help the smaller ones learn their colors and teach the older ones how to make sure the coupons are really a good deal. Enjoy.
Zacharias Allred on October 10th 2008 in Finance
