Pretend play takes up an important place in childhood, which is why the General Store is the perfect tool to motivate your kids to do chores, behave well and take on new challenges while having fun playing at real life! Using the store will let your child learn lessons that will surely be useful in their daily life:
- Learning to save: with the General Store, your child will have to learn to accumulate their tokens before they can get the reward of their choice, just like an adult who has to know how to save in order to buy things they want.
- Learning to make choices: unfortunately, we can't always afford everything we want, and we often have to make choices based on the budget we have. Thanks to the store, your child can develop their ability to choose an item or a privilege from everything on offer, based on their preferences and, of course, the tokens they've collected!
- Learning to manage a budget: your child wants candy bags at 20 tokens each, plus a toy that costs 50 tokens, and has collected 40 tokens so far? They'll have to decide whether to buy a bag of candy right away (or even two!) or to hang on to their tokens and save up to buy the privilege they want next week, just like when you manage a budget in adult life.
- Learning to compromise: you have several kids and they all want the same item, which is available in only one copy in the General Store? It's a chance for them to learn to compromise and be accommodating in order to find a solution that satisfies everyone.
Finally, using the General Store means letting kids ease into finances and life in society through play, important skills that will be more than useful in their future adult lives!
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