Early Childhood Financial Education

Annually celebrated on April 21, it is National Kindergarten Day.  This day honors Friedrich Froebel, who was born on April 21, 1782 and started the very first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837.

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was a German teacher who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. He created the concept of the “kindergarten” and coined the word “kindergarten” now used in German and English. His goal was that children should be taken care of and nourished in “children’s gardens” like plants in an orchard. He also developed the educational toys known as Froebel Gifts that included geometric building blocks and pattern activity blocks.

As building blocks in life, financial literacy and education is important at an early age, as young as four and five. Why? Because good habits built early last a lifetime. And today we will discuss this early education development.

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