Playing with a child in the store, do not be afraid to use the real trifle. First, the child is easier and faster to learn to sort objects in size, color, and the beginning of the arithmetic will be laid, because the numbers are written on the coins and it is much faster than drawn on the leaves.
As the child grows, he should explain that money from the sky does not fall. They are required to earn. It is necessary to start with the story that parents go to work, get a salary for it, which is spent on toys, clothing and food. Years from four or five children can with a calm conscience to attach to family concerns. Take a sheet of paper, write on it the amount you earn. Substitute taxes, fee for utilities, payment of travel, etc. and show that in the end you can spend on toys, food, clothes. Years from six-seven kids can be trusted to buy something necessary for the family. For example, bread. First, give the money to the tue tub, then with such a calculation so that the child can count the surrender.
Often the question arises: whether to leave the child with purchases or should return to parents all before a penny. It is best to save a trifle left from the campaign to the store. But the goal should be real and achievable - for example, a game or a toy that adults can not buy. Such accumulation taught the child to patience and expense planning. In Europe, it is customary to give a child for this purpose a special box so that the money lay in sight, and not inside the piggy bank, which is sorry for a sorry, and I want to see the accumulated see. To adapt for this case can be a transparent can. After all, the clarity of the process is psychologically important for children. The child should be able to open his cashier, put another contribution to it and make sure that the amount increases, even if he still does not know how to count. In the course of the accumulation, you look, and learn. Parents encourage his patience by the fact that when accumulating a certain amount, the "percentage" for patience (for example, has accumulated 200 rubles - parents awarded it even twenty, that is 10% of the amount).
There are from piggy banks and another benefit. When the offspring once again starts to be awesome, extorting money on some nonsense, you will have a reason to offer him a choice: or now we buy what you ask, or instead I give you money so that you put them in the piggy bank. Let learn to choose and make decisions. It is very useful for him in the future.
And finally, pocket money. Usually they begin to give out when the child goes to school. Remember: it doesn't matter what we give them, it is important that the child learned to contact them. Can't give as much as child needs? Tell me firmly: "Sorry, this is what I can give you at the moment." Asks for more? Discuss together a family budget with numbers in your hands. Agree of deadlines, and if they promised, fulfill your promise. One of the main rules is the rule of inconspicuous control: you should know where your child has spent its blood half-penny, and for this it is not necessary to arrange daily interrogation, quite occasionally, between the matter to inform about it.
Note: A certain amount should be solid and issued regularly, preferably at certain days (as an advance and pay). By the way, American psychologists believe that the amount should increase depending on the age of the child: six-card 6 dollars a week, a ten-year schoolboy - a dozen, etc. The upper limit will tell the mind and common sense. The child must decide what to spend this money. From now on, you do not buy a different little one for him: Choo must learn to count on their own spending.