35 Ways to Raise Money-Savvy Kids

We raise our children to be able to take care of themselves: We teach them to look both ways before crossing the street and to eat their vegetables so that they can grow strong and stay healthy. Many times, though, we fail to teach them much about money management and investing.

That's a shame, because it can doom our kids to financial struggles throughout their lives, and can mean that they don't get to take advantage of the biggest investing edge they'll ever have: a long investing horizon. It can even mean that they end up depending on us financially well into their adulthood, when we need all our dollars for our retirement.

Here, then, are a bunch of ways that you can raise money-savvy kids. Acting on just some of them will make a difference in your children's lives, and acting on a lot of them can set them on a path toward financial independence.