The Paca Bank
Money skills for curious kids
The Little Savers pack is out now
36 lessons, 6 modules, and one very enthusiastic alpaca ready to guide your child through everything money.
From Paca's notebook
What Kids Learn When You Take Them Shopping (and How to Make It Count)
Most parents dread taking small children to the supermarket. The whining, the picking-things-up, the queue, the till. But hidden inside that ordinary trip is one of the richest financial lessons your child will ever get — if you slow it down even slightly. Teaching kids about shops and prices doesn’t need a special outing. It just needs the trip you were already going on.
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Why Giving Feels Good: Teaching Kindness Through Small Acts of Sharing
Your child holds out half their biscuit and says, “for you, mummy.” It’s soggy. It’s small. It’s the best thing that has happened to you all week. You eat it without hesitation, because what they’ve just done — without anyone teaching them — is one of the deepest things a person can learn. They’ve shared.
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Needs vs Wants: How to Explain the Difference to a Young Child
You’re at the supermarket. Your child puts a packet of glittery stickers in the basket. You quietly take it out. They notice. They put it back in. You take it out again. They ask, with genuine confusion, why they can have an apple but not stickers — aren’t both just things in the trolley?
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