Teaching your Kids About Money
I am very fortunate to have the mother I do. She taught me the value of money, how to budget, save, invest and more importantly, how to challenge myself. I spent my teenage years renovating houses and learning how to paint, tile, run wires, plaster and strip wallpaper. At the time, it didn’t seem like the best way to be spending my down time, but I now value it as an apprenticeship.
I often discuss finances and teach my own children about money, how it’s earned and how it works. Last week, I was telling them about my upcoming exhibit at Somaspace and they were very interested. They asked losts of questions and wanted to contribute a piece themselves.
I set up their canvases and watched as they lovingly applied every stroke. They were so focused on making sure these paintings were perfect because they considered them to be the most important paintings they’d ever done. They didn’t place the importance on exhibiting their work though, I’d told them that if they sold their paintings, they could spend the money however they wanted (at which point they will get a tangible lesson in exchange rates and GDP).
The Bear - Dominic Black
The boys have been at their father’s house since Sunday night and when we were having our catch up chat on Monday he told me how excited the boys were about the art show and it was all they would talk about.
Elijah, my entrepreneurial 3 year old had really taken to the concept. On Sunday night, he destroyed his pillow, so Daddy told him, that it was a silly thing to do because now he didn’t have a pillow to sleep on, to which Elijah responded nonchalantly, ‘Doesn’t matter, I’ll sell a painting and buy a new one’.
Some days they make me so proud.
Our work will be on display at Bar Soma for the month of September 2009. If you can’t make it to tonight’s SomaSpace but would like to place a bid on any of the work, you can download a copy of our exhibit pieces as a PDF, right click here and select ’save target as’.
- Transformer on a Speedboat – Elijah Black
All work will be sold via silent auction. If you wish to place an absentee bid on any of the exhibiting work throughout the month of September, please contact Lou at Bar Soma.
If you would like to purchase my work, arrange a private commission or have my work shown in your own exhibit, I am contactable via the contact form above.
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