How to talk to children about money?

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Money and children: taboo or not taboo?

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Pocket money, gifts, discussions between parents ... Children very early on are confronted with money and its realities.

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Pocket money, gifts, discussions between parents… Children are confronted very early on with money and its realities. For parents, many questions arise.

Should we pay for good grades or services rendered?

Should we give them pocket money?

How much ?

Are bank accounts or

necessary before they come of age?

How to explain to children that money does not fall from the sky, but that it does not allow everything?

How do you convey the value for money to them?

With :

Patrick AVRANE

, psychoanalyst, writer and author of

Diana BRONDEL

, entrepreneur and founder of

, the first mobile neobank for adolescents

Mark TILDEN

, Financial Literacy Advisor

At the end of the program, the chronicle of the psychologist

, Parents, children, from here and elsewhere: "Al Ihsaan, for the beauty of the parental gesture, or the value of a gift".

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A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist at UNICEF in Dakar.

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