financial advisor has tips for talking financial stress with kids

Be open and honest

Fact.

This pandemic has put a lot of financial stress on families.

Layoffs, furloughs and job losses are the reality for a lot of us.

Kimt news three's george mallet has been talking to a certified financial advisor about that and the impact on our kids.

Kids financial-bmintro-1 kids financial-bmintro-2 katie, greg murset created an app called busy kid dot com.

It is a unique tool for teaching kids about finances.

During this pandemic, greg has been very concerned about how we communicate financial stress to our children.

That's my eight year old son, colton.

Two years ago when i got fired by a tv station.

I told colton.

And greg--- says being open with our lowerthird2line coronavirus:gregg murset busykid.com the more you can share, the better it actually is.

I think that's not only in this situation that we find kind of in general, i think we all as adults need to share more with our kids kids financial-bmtag-1 kids financial-bmtag-2 openness, though, has its complications, when i got canned and explained that to colton, i was also volunteering in colton's cafeteria.

I guess i shouldn't have been surprised when colton---- who was five at the time---- was holding court and telling all of his friends that his dad had been fired.

Katie--- as they say--- out of the mouths of babes.

Thanks george.

Coming up on kimt news three at six, greg shares the very real payoff of explaining finances to your children.

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