Evening star., 1938-08-01
Little Children Should Be Taught That the Street Their No Mans
Teach Child
To Handle
Money
Start Training Early
So That He Will
Learn Its Value.
By ANGELO PATRI.

HERE'S the vegetables Nom.
got some fine peas for 10 cents
. pound. They're selling for IS on
the stands, but 1 went to the market
and Tony gave me three pounds good
measure for a quarter because I took
four punches of carrots with them
Good business?"
Great. I don't know what I'd do
without you. Carl. I'm sure. Id have
to pay whatever they asked at the
stand and lose the money you save
1t counts up, doesn't it?"
Does it? I should say. My ac-
count is getting fat. Could you put
up bushel of tomatoess this after
noon If 1 helped you. Nom? Sam
told me could pick out a bushel of
good ones from what he has left, if
I wanted them, for IS cents. They're
more than twice that in the stores"
Maybe we could. Ill do my best.
You get the tomatoes and we'll get
the jars ready 1t would be great to
get Is quarts done at that price. Let's
60"
Carl raced away and mother began
hustling the dishes into the pan and
out again. Grandmother took the
towel and polished hard and fast. BY
and by she asked: How is it Carl
is doing the marketing and is so smart
about it, and so keen? I never knew
q child to be like that"
It's not ordinary. It's bit of
secret, but you can know. Carl began
pilfering out of my pocketbook. l
discovered that he wanted to buy
things Made him feel big imagine.
I was desperately frightened and
racked my brain to find way to cure
him. I took him with me to market
let him carry the money in his purse
in his pocket AS soon as I could
! let him do the selecting as we'll as
the paying. He took to it like duck
to water. Now he buys all the vege-
tables, keeps the accounts and all.
We divide what he saves over the
market price, fifty-fifty. He can be
trusted with any amount Of money
and is never short a cent"
Many of the mistakes that children
make about the use OF money are
caused by ignorance. They have no
idea OF the value of money, nor of
where it comes from, nor of where it
goes, nor why. If they could know
they would not make anything like as
many mistakes. Many people keep the
financial position of the family dead
secret from the children. Some of
this is necessary, but then. too. some
knowledge Of the family concern is
essential to the intelligent behavior
OF the children in relation to the
budget
We don't begin to teach the meaning
and use OF money until it is too late.
The children have formed mistaken
ideas about it and have acted upon
them 50 that they have acquired wrong
habits. heard an intelligent boy
say, when his mother said there was
no money for something he wanted:
Just ask father to write some out
Of his book" He was 10 years old
and thought money was written out
OF a check book. What would he be
doing with money when he was l6?
Train little children to use money.
As they grow. give them more expert
ence. Pilfering is caused by ignorance
oftener than not.
MIR. Patri has prepared a leafiet
entitled Poor Readers" in which he
gives parents many suggestions on
how to help children to improve their
reading Send for 1t, addressing your
request to Mr.. Angelo Patri, Child
Psychology Department Of this paper.
Inclose a self-addressed, stamped g.
cent? envelope.
(Copyrieht. 1889