If you’re like most when you think about introducing money to your children you probably think about teaching your children how to balance a checkbook, save money, spend less than you make, or how to be charitable. It should be a goal of ours to instill good money habits in our children, even if we don’t have the best habits ourselves. Money and good money habits do not guarantee happiness, but not having either can bring avoidable stress into an individual’s life. The next step is to, as Tyrone Ross encourages us to do, get proximate-actually go to a children’s shelter or go serve food at a food kitchen and let them experience what they saw on TV in real life.Īs parents, we want our children to have better lives than we’ve had. A discussion is not enough–it’s just the start. If you’ve seen The Pursuit Of Happyness, you know there are plenty of opportunities to discuss what some have and what others do not. I know a movie cannot really make the boys appreciate the lives they’ve been born into, but it can begin the conversation. We rarely finish watching a movie after about 30-45 minutes the movie becomes background noise as the boys get into some type of physical activity. To my surprise, the boys were glued to the TV.
I don’t remember how the idea came to me-I can’t remember if I saw it flipping through YouTube TV or if it just popped in my head, but I found it on Netflix and put it on as I made breakfast for everyone. This year we started a new New Year’s Day tradition…watching The Pursuit Of Happyness.
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