Money talk at the dinner table: Teach children value

Money talk at the dinner table: Teach children value (Photo: iStock)

In a small apartment in Nairobi’s Donholm estate, every Sunday evening, the Anthony Wambugu family sits around the dinner table. Plates of ugali and sukuma wiki are served, but so is something less visible: money lessons.

“We decided to make money a family conversation, not a secret,” says Josephine Wambugu, a mother of three. “Each child shares how they used their pocket money that week. If they save, they get praised. If they overspent, we talk about choices.”