Teach a Child to Save with Moonjar Moneybox

As soon as my nine year old gets money it burns a hole in her pocket until she spends it. She actually asks us every day to go to the store to spend her money, it is that bad. She is the total opposite of me as a child, I would hang onto my money forever to a point that my family would joke and say that the moths would come out when I opened my wallet.

Our older children get the concept of budgeting and saving money as well as donating and sharing with others but for some reason the whole idea of saving money seems very foreign to my youngest child. This is clearly something we need to work on further. Even when I introduced the Moonjar to her for the first time when she heard save she gave me that look because I am always encouraging her to save.


To encourage my daughter to save money I have decided to come up with some creative ways to save money. First of all the Moonjar is very practical way to encourage saving not to mention it is very visual which is important to my daughter in seeing the benefits of saving.
Great ways to encourage children to save money:

• Have a visual reminder like the Moonjar
• Get a picture of the item or thing they are saving for and put it up in their room
• Make the saving goals short and easy to reach
• Remind them to shop around to get the best price for their goal item
• Be a good role model for you child