Should we Teach our Babies about Money Early?

FINANCIAL EDUCATION MUST START FROM HOME (and this is every Parents' Responsibility!)

An instance on a weekend, that our 27-month-old baby has been hilariously crying. I thought it's one of his unnerving tantrums as it was almost lunchtime. He wanted to eat something he couldn't find in the fridge.

Instead, he said, "mommy give money!" he's been crying and won't stop asking for "money!"

I was amazed at Sage's statement while we were playing at the veranda because I never taught him about money, (not just yet) I mean he's 27 months old so the idea of MONEY would be too far off.

I am not even sure if he understood what would be the money for. Eventually, he checked on my bag and found my purse and there were only 10 SCR coins. He took it and asked, "mask?" Surprised of all surprises that my baby's question astounded me to the hilt. What on earth is Sage Alexander asking me for?

Of course, his sentence was grammatically incorrect but you could understand what he meant by asking, "mommy mosa,(short for samoza) and pizza!"

I have to take the coins but he vehemently said, "mommy give mommy, mosa, pizza, shop!"

I felt like having a charade game trying to connect the dots. Since the other day when we went to the shop, he asked for fish samosa and pizza but because it was already closed so we told him that we would buy it the next day however we forgot that they don't open on Sundays.

So I figured out that he wanted money because he would buy samosa and pizza at the shop, likewise he needed a mask. Technically he'd seen us wearing mask whenever we went out so he thought of doing just the same. I told his dad when he came from work and was also surprised as I was. Somehow it got me into thinking whether babies' brains are wired to their surroundings even without teaching them?

This particular scenario with our 2-year-old Sage Alexander about the use of money to buy samosa and pizza brought a great impact on how he understood the value of money for buying prime commodities, perhaps it was retained on his brain on the essential of money tips and saving hence we opted to acquire a Life Assurance Product for his Junior Years. Though Education is FREE here in Seychelles still we would never know how far he wanted to go for his studies so we prepared him for it at the earliest possible time.