Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 16, 2018 and refreshed on April 19, 2021. While the children described in the article are three years older now, we think the information provided is as relevant as ever.
Since 2002, Zions Bank employees have volunteered for the American Bankers Association’s National Teach Children to Save program to teach more than 185,497 K-12 students the ABCs of savings.
But what about when those bankers go home for the day? What lessons are they teaching their own children? We interviewed five employees — with children ranging in age from 5 to 17 — to glean their best tips for how they teach their own children to be savvy savers.