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Grandfather’s Coins
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Grandfather’s Coins

Educational Value
Money management

Moral of the story
A little money well spent canachieve a lot more than we
had imagined, especially if it helps us to learn and
develop ourselves.

Story
Every month, Julia and her cousins would go for the big family meal at their grandparents'house. They would
always wait excitedly for the moment their grandfather would give them a few coins, "so you can buy yourself
something." Then all the children would run off to buy chewing gum,lollies, or wine gums. The grandparents, aunts,
uncles, and parents commented that, behaving like this, the children would never learn to manage their money. So
they proposed a special test, in whichthe children would have to show, over the course of a year, just what they
could manage to get with those few coins.
Some of the children thought that they would save their money, but Ruben and Nico,the two smallest kids, paid no
attention, and they continued spending it all on sweets. Every time, they would show off their sweets in front of the
other children, laughing and making fun of theircousins. They made Clara and Joe so angry that these two could
no longer stand to keep saving their money. They joined Ruben and Nico in spending whatever they had, as soon
as possible, on sweets.Monty was a clever boy, and he decided to start managing his money by exchanging it: buying and selling things,
or betting it with other children, in card games. Soon he had surprised the wholefamily. He had accumulated a lot
of money for little effort. The way he was going, he would end up almost a rich man. However, Monty was not being
very careful, and he got involved in more and morerisky deals. A few months later he hadn't a single penny left,
after placing a losing bet on a horse race.
Alex, on the other hand, had a will of iron. He saved and saved all the money he was given,...