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Article: Kids Investment Program: Teaching children all about money
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- Westside Gazette
- Article date:
- March 26, 2003
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The Kids Investment Program (KIP) is an educational program designed to teach children how to save, spend and invest money. KIP was developed at Mt. Hermon A.M.E church for the purpose of providing children with a different way of looking at money. Rather than spending money simply for immediate gratification, children are instructed on the value of regular saving, wise spending, and investing for special purposes.
The short-range goal of KIP is to teach the value of money, while the long-range goal is financial security. A curriculum has been developed around creative lessons, which provide well articulated learning experiences so that the ...