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Bayou Tiger 
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| Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:01 pm)
My son is in Kindergarten and was talking about saving up his money to buy something. So I told him about spending, saving, investing, and giving.
He asked about investing, so I told him about bank accounts and stocks. I told him banks pay you money to hold your money for you, which he thought was cool. He asked me how much the banks would give him to hold his money. After I told him how much money, he said "Ha ha. That's not a lot of money."
Maybe I should start him off in junk bonds, although he thought the idea of stocks was pretty cool.
How exactly does anyone encourage their kids to open a savings account these days with the horrendous interest rates?
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I Love Bama 
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:04 pm to Bayou Tiger)
Good grief man. He's in kindergarten.
Toss him a ball.
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Bayou Tiger
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:06 pm to I Love Bama)
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Good grief man. He's in kindergarten.
Toss him a ball.
We do plenty of that, for sure
He's pretty rowdy and active with sports for his age, but he is really into numbers and money too.
ETA: He's really just curious and interested about a whole lot of things in life, so I do my best as a parent to answer questions and nurture what he is interested in.
Do you have kids? When he's asking me about rain clouds or cars or money, I'm not just going to tell him to get back outside and shoot more hoops.
This post was edited on 3/12 at 9:10 pm
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LSUTigers00884 
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:09 pm to Bayou Tiger)
Future finance/economics major.
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WikiTiger
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:10 pm to Bayou Tiger)
have you explained to him the federal reserve system and how inflation is a hidden tax yet?
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LSUAfro
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:12 pm to Bayou Tiger)
Bit coins. It's like play money.
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OnTheBrink
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:17 pm to LSUAfro)
And here we go...........
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Tmacelroy12
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:21 pm to OnTheBrink)
Sounds like a finance major to-be 
I also loved saving money... I came home one year from college and was working in the attic cleaning out some shite. Found about $600 in a monopoly board that I was saving
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LSUtoOmaha
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:24 pm to Bayou Tiger)
First of all, your kid is going to be extremely bright.
Secondly, at his age I would just let him continuing asking his own questions.
This post was edited on 3/12 at 9:44 pm
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Lsut81
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:25 pm to Bayou Tiger)
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Maybe I should start him off in junk bonds, although he thought the idea of stocks was pretty cool.
Bitcoins motherfricker
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TigerDeBaiter
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:28 pm to OnTheBrink)
BitCoin Board?
To OP, maybe have him save up for enough to buy a share of Disney or something? Then get them to mail an actual stock certificate so he gets something tangible.
I wouldn't buy one of those pre-framed certificates though; I looked for my nephew and a most of the websites wanted over double market value. It was framed, but still. It was the principle.
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Bayou Tiger
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:41 pm to Lsut81)
I am not smart enough to explain bitcoins to him. After reading all of WikiTiger's links with an open mind, I still don't understand any of it.
It reminds me of trying to visualize quantum physics. All of that stuff is either way above my head or a bunch of BS, but my brain can't grasp it and I can't just "go along to get along."
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LSU9102
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:45 pm to Bayou Tiger)
Roth account is an option for work that he can do.
Tax free and he would be way ahead by 18 than most by 68.
Sad but true.
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TigerintheNO
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 9:59 pm to Bayou Tiger)
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When he's asking me about rain clouds or cars or money, I'm not just going to tell him to get back outside and shoot more hoops.
typical white person
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LSUtoOmaha
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 10:04 pm to LSU9102)
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Roth account is an option for work that he can do.
Tax free and he would be way ahead by 18 than most by 68.
Sad but true.
You have to be careful about this if the child is younger than the minimum age to hold a job. I don't think chores and things of that nature count. It is a grey area for Roth funding.
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foshizzle
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 10:20 pm to Bayou Tiger)
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How exactly does anyone encourage their kids to open a savings account these days with the horrendous interest rates?
If he sets aside a certain amount every week, he'll have an amount he'll find amazing after only a couple of months.
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have you explained to him the federal reserve system and how inflation is a hidden tax yet?
You know better than this, nobody hoards currency.
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Siderophore
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/12/13 at 10:40 pm to I Love Bama)
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Good grief man. He's in kindergarten.
Toss him a ball.
I absolutely despise parents with this attitude.
I was teaching a kid (second cousin) in kindergarten multiplication, and she was getting it really well.
The mother asked me to stop because "She's too young."
Exposure and education don't have age limits.
This post was edited on 3/13 at 7:39 am
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LSU316
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/13/13 at 8:15 am to Bayou Tiger)
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He's really just curious and interested about a whole lot of things in life, so I do my best as a parent to answer questions and nurture what he is interested in.
I would be willing to bet your son will be a very successful person. I'm going to try and do the same thing for my daughter (she is only 4 months so it might be lost in translation at this point  ).
I wish I would have been more interested in things that affected my future when I was growing up.
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LSURussian
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/13/13 at 8:31 am to Bayou Tiger)
Buy a few shares of a stock in a company he knows and likes, for example, Disney or Coca-Cola. That's how I got my kids interested in the stock market and how businesses need to make a profit.
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Waffle House 
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| re: Kindergartners and Bank Accounts (Posted on 3/13/13 at 8:43 am to Bayou Tiger)
If you're just trying to teach the concept of saving, why don't you set the interest rate that the "bank" will pay. You don't have to be absurd about it but maybe give him a 10% rate that you deposit in addition to his deposits.
You could also do a "company match" where you match 10% of what he contributes to his savings, similar to a 401k program.
I also liked Russian's idea of buying stocks in companies that he is familiar with and likes.
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