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How to Teach Your Kids About Money and Business – Take A Family Field Trip

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Showing your child first hand how currency and coins are produced can generate lots of discussion about money and finances. In Washington DC, the Bureau of Printing and Engraving offers tours. If your child is 16 or older, they can tour the New York Fed vault. Last year, FinCon12 in Denver offered the Mint tour and I went on it.

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Tell us a little about yourself I am in my late 30s, I am a lawyer for a local government, and live outside DC with my husband and four-year-old. Most of my evenings/weekends are just hanging out (largely at home and in the yard with my family). It has been amazing for our finances and my mental health.

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