{"id":716,"date":"2011-04-22T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2011-02-22T23:17:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T04:17:32","slug":"money-games-for-kids%e2%80%93smartstart-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/716\/money-games-for-kids%e2%80%93smartstart-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Money games for kids \u2013 SmartStart for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is yet another post about fun resources and games for kids to help with their financial education. I  will keep them coming for you,<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy everyone!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cibc.com\/ca\/youth\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">SmartStart for Kids<\/a> money online game (found on The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce website) is strictly for the young at heart!  There\u2019s a video with a little flying piggy bank that\u2019s awesome!<\/p>\n<p>This is the place to check out cool stuff about money and banking.  Your kids will learn how to make money, how to save it, how to invest it and how to make it grow.<\/p>\n<p>Kids will learn about money through \u201cways to save,\u201d \u201cborrowing and investing money\u201d and \u201cThe ABCs of Money.\u201d  Don\u2019t understand some words?  Kids can go there to boost their banking vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a neat game called \u201cThe Allowance Room.\u201d It\u2019s a virtual room filled with awesome stuff, like cell phones and video games, that most kids want to be able to buy one day. Now they have the opportunity to learn how to come up with the cash to buy what they want.<\/p>\n<p>There are 15 clickable items.  Simply click on an item and the Money Machine will figure out how long it will take to save up enough cash. \u201cWeekly Contribution\u201d is the amount your kids can save while \u201cParent Contribution\u201d is the money they can count on from you.<\/p>\n<p>Do your kids want to learn more about what a bank is and what it does?  Have them check out \u201cbank account\u201d and \u201cCIBC SmartStart Program.  Also, check out CIBC Save-Up  GIC to learn how to save money.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a special section \u201cFor Parents Only\u201d where day-to-day banking, saving &amp; investing, borrowing and protection skills are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers \u2026 Amanda van der Gulik \u2026 Excited Life Enthusiast! ;o)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is yet another post about fun resources and games for kids to help with their financial education. I will keep them coming for you, Enjoy everyone! The SmartStart for Kids money online game (found on The Canadian Imperial Bank &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/716\/money-games-for-kids%e2%80%93smartstart-for-kids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1531],"tags":[34,1461,295,84],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-money-management","tag-financial-education","tag-financial-literacy","tag-piggy-banks","tag-saving-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}