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5 Things to Teach Your Kids about Money and Happiness

What are the most important lessons you can teach your children about money?  That is a difficult question, because there are so many teachings children learn from their parents, grandparents or guardians.  One thing is very true, though: How we act later in life often can be directly correlated with what we learned earlier in our youth.

Children get lessons on right and wrong.  They can develop a hard work ethic at an early age.  They can even excel in math.  Too often, however, adults can get themselves in trouble because they did not develop a sense of what to do when it comes to financial matters. 

Here are a handful of things that I believe are important to teach the young ones you love.

1. The value

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