Build My Budget

Developing Talents #1 ~ Learn how to budget and save money. Discuss why it is important to faithfully pay our tithing and how Heavenly father blesses us when we do (see 3 Nephi 24:10-11). Pay your tithing and begin saving for a mission.

This is the final lesson that I am having with the children on the topic about the money.

At the first lesson, we were learning about some basic knowledge that the children need to know about the concept of Tithing and money.

We discussed about how Heavenly Father blesses us when we faithfully pay our tithing.

How the Tithing money being used in our church, and how to fill up the Tithing slip in our lesson in Tithing Wallet.

At the second lesson,we were learning 2 extra words, which is Saving and Spending.

We were doing some calculation games and Alvin shared about how to save and spend and tithing too. We were having fun decorated their jars in our lesson in Tithing Games and Jars.

On our third lesson, it would be more on budgeting.

We focused more on getting the children to know about the values of money and the prices of the food, grocery, daily household items which they are eating, seeing and using everyday.

It’s on our lesson in The Price is Right.

Now, we were learning on how to balance and create our own budget worksheet.

And, encourage children to do critical thinking on how much money they left or why the expenses or spending like that?

Build their own budget an set saving goals. Besides, how the children can work to earn extra cash that they need.

Finally there is a lesson which the children learned from our Elder Robert D. Hales’s talk during April 2009 General Conference, Becoming Provident Providers Temporally and Spiritually,  on spending necessary.

“ He realized that spending more than you can afford doesn’t show love, we shouldn’t do it no matter what, even if it is Christmas or we really, really like something. He always remembered how wise his wife had been.”

“ So the second question we should always remember. Even if we CAN afford something, we should always ask “Do we really need it?” If we don’t we should try to be happy without it.”

Well, this have concluded the lesson on the Tithing, Budget and how Heavenly Father blesses us when we faithfully paying our Tithing. We have fun learning about these things that the Lord wants us to know about!