Submitted:
2009-04-11 03:14:13 Number of Times Read: 9
There is nothing wrong with parents helping their children learn what personal finances are all about. Otherwise, how else are they supposed to learn to deal with mortgage loans, banking accounts and personal credit management? Financial success is hard to obtain in life without the proper guidance and advice from some sort of professional. The ration of love that comes out when parents are teaching financial accounting and management at an early age is a big slice of what parenthood is all about.
* Good parents should try to prepare their children to deal with all financial decisions head on or tell them where to go for help when the time comes. They should teach their children to ask for help when things get out of control. Parents should teach children character words such as honesty and integrity because with those words inside, no problems with personal finances will be too large.
* Communication is the key to good personal finances and another character word that a child can learn early in life. Learning to discuss late bills takes a lot of guts for some because the personal protection blinders are down. Bad parents do not take fault when children develop bad credit problems. If these people had been taught how to manage their personal finances properly there would be no need for blame at all. Letting a child know that things can be corrected is foremost on the lifelong learning program that begins at home.
* Parents can teach a child how loans work and how the loans are financed. An older child might understand how important it is to make payments on time because they have been exposed to late payments and the consequences of not paying on time at home. Learning about the number of months a person can choose to finance a loan will seem like child's play to some. To a child though, twenty-four months seems like a very long time. Time stands still on a bad credit rating that crashed because loan payments were not paid on time.
* One of the most important things that a parent can teach a child is to save money instead of spending it. Putting a little money back each month for a rainy day can really help people who get behind on bills. If you have a supply of cash on hand there is a good chance that you can figure it out on your own without needing to ask for help. Parents can give good advice but should not be expected to pick up the financial burdens of children.
Bad credit practices have severe consequences on a person's ability to obtain loans for any purpose. The person will not be able to get a home mortgage loan unless it has a high interest rate. Some terms of that loan might make it possible for them to lose it one day because the mortgage rate will double and triple as interest rates climb. People should not feel bad about mismanaging credit though because even high-powered corporate types have problems with it too and needed help in figuring out how to save investments that belonged to millions of others.
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