Ideas for Money Wisdom #29

💡 This principle says that a small thing that inflates can create big, strong pressure.

A pool float fills up slowly, breath after breath, until it's strong enough to hold us up on the water.

Small savings that build up slowly work the same way - they eventually turn into a big "pressure" of financial strength.

For example:
Every small deposit is like one more breath of air into the pool float - alone it's barely noticeable, but breath after breath, the float fills up and becomes strong enough to carry you above the water.

Savings don't need to start big - they just need to keep going, breath after breath, until they're strong enough to let us use them for what we want.

Ready for a challenge? We've prepared some extra challenges for you to try

Try checking it together. Blow up a balloon with small breaths and count how many breaths it takes until it's full, and connect that to small savings that grow gradually.

Easy
1. Check together how long it takes to blow up a balloon or a pool float, breath after breath.
2. Ask your child what else at home fills up slowly until it's completely full.

A bit of a stretch
3. Choose together to put a small coin in the savings box every day for two weeks, and check how much has been collected at the end.
4. Check together whether it's easier to blow up a balloon with one long breath or with several short breaths.

Challenge for champions
5. Ask your child to invent a new toy that runs only on air or water.
6. Try thinking together about a big goal, and plan it as a series of small breaths that together get you there.