Money as You Grow:
Help for parents and caregivers
No need to be a money expert—the tips and activities here can help your children’s money skills, habits, and attitudes grow.
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Build your child's money skills
See if your child is reaching age-appropriate money milestones. Then, find activities and conversation starters that can keep your child on track.
Talk about money choices
Wondering if it’s the right time to talk to your child about a money topic that’s on your mind? It’s not too early—or too late! See how to adapt the conversation to where your child is, developmentally.
Read together
Money as You Grow Bookshelf can help you weave money skills into the time you may already spend reading to your kids at home, in a way they'll understand.
Meet the Money Monsters
These Money Monsters stories introduce children to ideas, habits, and activities that they'll need as they grow up and start to manage money.
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Sources and acknowledgements
The content and activities for parents and caregivers are based on and adapted, with permission, from Money as You Grow. Money as You Grow was recommended as an initiative by the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability , in 2010. We appreciate Beth Kobliner and all those who made Money as You Grow possible. The CFPB researched the way children develop the abilities and attributes that contribute to their financial well-being in adulthood.
Additional research identified milestones for developing financial capability, and ways to measure it. We then worked with the Corporation for Enterprise Development and researchers from University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Maryland, Baltimore County to connect Money as You Grow activities to children’s financial developmental stages. The current Money as You Grow program is based on years of research, and drawn from dozens of standards, curricula, and academic studies.