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

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You can have a fun, and usually inexpensive time helping them learn by showing them companies, factories and banks in action. Even if you can’t get a tour, you can watch from public areas and also discuss this. They also lack much of an idea about how money itself is made, stored and distributed.

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Growing up in the 1950?s

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On the other hand… there were no drones, stoplight cameras, computer virus problems, identity theft, angst over credit ratings, amber alerts, full body scanners to enter an airport and etc. Cheap (not just inexpensive, I mean cheap – easy to break) toys came from post-war Japan. Food/shopping. People cooked and ate at home.

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