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

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At a local McDonald’s or other favorite spot of your child, first arrange a tour with the manager and during or after the tour, have your child talk about the different tasks they saw people doing. Teach kids about different types of jobs in one business.

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Stock Market Sectors: 11 Official GICS Groups

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Amazon.com ( AMZN -0.27% ) and McDonald’s ( MCD 0.11% ) are among the biggest stocks in the sector. Consumer staples sector The consumer staples sector includes goods and services that consumers need, regardless of their current financial condition or the current economic climate. Consumer staples 8.

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Ways for Busy Parents to Teach Young Children About Money

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Start understanding vocabulary and concepts of economics – such as ‘resource’, ‘earn’, ‘income’, price, ‘currency’ and etc. At McDonald’s. Know that money is limited and people need to make choices between things. Make change. Know that a person can be a buyer and a seller.

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