{"id":2851,"date":"2012-09-04T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thinplaces\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2012-09-03T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T11:52:01","slug":"what-do-you-want-to-teach-your-kids-about-money-and-what-do-our-presidential-candidates-teach-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thinplaces\/2012\/09\/what-do-you-want-to-teach-your-kids-about-money-and-what-do-our-presidential-candidates-teach-them\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Want to Teach Your Kids About Money? (and what do our Presidential candidates teach them?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Recently, William has become obsessed with money. I think it started when he received twenty dollars for his birthday, which prompted a trip to the toy store where he got to purchase something that he selected. He\u2019s been on a quest for more money ever since. He scoured the car for coins. He plays \u201clook for money\u201d during his \u201cquiet time\u201d in the afternoon. A few days ago he woke up from a nap inconsolable. He finally calmed down enough to gasp, \u201cMom, I just need a piece of money.\u201d Once he had a quarter in his hand, all was well.<\/p>\n

So perhaps it was prescient that I wrote a post for parents.com last week about money, \u201cWhat Would Romney or Obama Teach my Kids About Money?<\/a>\u201d It begins:<\/p>\n

The election of 2012 is supposed to be all about the money. We\u2019ve heard about\u00a0Mitt Romney\u2019s tax returns<\/a>\u00a0(he paid 14 percent in taxes on hundreds of millions of dollars in income) and\u00a0Paul Ryan\u2019s budget plan<\/a>\u00a0(which calls for a 16 percent decrease in spending on the poor, for instance) and\u00a0President Obama\u2019s \u201csocialism\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(based largely upon his support of universal health care). Although the rhetorical jabs lobbied at both sides should probably be dismissed as caricatures of what these men actually propose when it comes to economic policy, this focus upon the economic health of our nation has led me to wonder who I should vote for in November. And one way for me to try to answer that question is to consider what I want to teach my children about the intersection of work, money, and ethics.<\/p>\n

Our kids aren\u2019t old enough to\u00a0think about money<\/a>\u00a0on an abstract level. They know that money buys things, but they don\u2019t really know that it comes from a paycheck. In fact, they\u2019ve more often been the recipients of money that comes from gifts\u2013a twenty dollar bill from a grandparent on their\u00a0birthdays<\/a>, the man at the local coffee shop who always gives them a few coins, the\u00a0tooth fairy<\/a>\u00a0who leaves a dollar under Penny\u2019s pillow (until she decided to stop that strange practice by writing a note: Dear Tooth Fairy, Don\u2019t come. Ever.).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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