Day 39 – Teach Your Kids How to Make a Deal

Verse of the Day

34 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images. 2 Chronicles 34:1–3 (ESV)

Action Step

Find a way for your kids to participate in business. When you make a major purchase, allow them to sit-in on making the deal. When they get ready to make a purchase, help them in the process.

Summary

Don’t exasperate your children, but have high expectations for them. In this episode Brian gives some examples of how students an do great things in business and they can learn how to negotiate prices.

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Day 38 – Open A Kid Account

Verse of the Day

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. Proverbs 1:8–9 (ESV)

Action Step

Open your child an account so they can learn to earn, budget, save, and spend their own money.

 Summary

Opening your child his or her own bank account is a great way to teach them stewardship. Be sure to help them count their money and track spending. Helping them to balance the account is a way to teach budgeting.
 

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Day 37 – STOP Giving Your Kids an Allowance

Verse of the Day

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Pro. 22:6

Action Step

Stop giving your children an allowance and/or buying them what they want when they want it. Teach them to earn, budget, save and spend their own money.

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Day 36 – Teaching Stewardship to Your Children

Verse of the Day

7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:7–9 (ESV)

Action Step

Talk regularly about stewardship with your children. Allow them to see how Biblical stewardship informs your decisions as a family. Look for ways for your children to participate in stewardship with you.

Summary

How do you make sure that Biblical stewardship is not just a personal decision, but becomes a generational principle with your children? We must model, teach, and find ways for our children to participate. 

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