On this edition of The Community…

We all want our children to be money smart. Teaching your children how money works and how to work with it is a good start.

Dorothy Bell, SVP & Chief Marketing Officer with Jaison McCall, Financial Literacy and Community Outreach Specialist for St. Louis Community Credit Union.

In this episode:
•Is there a good time to start talking to our children about money and how it works?
•How do we handle that immediate gratification?? The “I want it now
•Allowances. Are they good or bad?
•How important does the role of credit play when teaching our children how to manage their finances?
•What are things we can do to get started?
•Tips to become better money management teachers.

We can teach our children many things…and teaching them the importance of money management should be part of that overall life lesson.

The CU Excel Center is located at 95 North Oaks Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63121, nestled in the northeast corner of the North Oaks Shopping Plaza (intersection of Natural Bridge and Lucas and Hunt).

For more information or to sign up for a class, call our Financial Literacy Hotline at (314) 385-1586, or send an e-mail to center@stlouiscommunity.com