Preschool kids learn how money works
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May 2, 2012 - Straits Times
3 friends start Kindernomics to teach four- to six-year-olds economics in bite-sized chunks
Parents who struggle with economics and the basics of how money works will be able to turn to their children for help, thanks to a new business that mixes fun and finance for preschoolers.
Kindernomics, as the programme is called, was started about two months ago by three young, single and ambitious friends to help children make sense of the world around them by teaching them essential economic concepts in simple bite-sized chunks.
'We want to transform the preschool landscape and early childhood education. It's very important for kids to make independent choices,' said co-founder Chan Yun Cheong, 34, who has an MBA from Cornell University and has worked in London and New York.
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'We see so many people getting into financial difficulties at a younger and younger age, so it's very important to me to teach my children how to handle money.'
Ms Paula Robinson, whose four-year-old son Garrett went to a Kindernomics camp
At an office space in the Forum shopping mall on Orchard Road, four- to six-year-olds can attend weekly classes that cost $550 for a 10-lesson term, with each lesson lasting about 90 minutes with up to 12 children at a time.
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$550 for 10 lessons.
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sound investment?
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last time i take photography as an art when i got time i shoot TF for mollers now got babies already cannot have to resort to bianjiak start charging a few hundred bucks for shoot at my studio
canoot time bad have to do like what they diding