Is there a guide on how to teach children about bitcoin? In schools they rarely talk about economics and if they do, they practically talk about teenagers. Education in South America is crap, for that reason my husband and I do not leave our daughter's education in the hands of the state. She goes to school because homeschooling is not legal in this country, but that does not prevent us from instilling in her the knowledge that we want her to learn, such as freedom of expression (with respect), self-defense and economics according to her age and according to the doubts she may have about it. Last week my daughter (7 years old) asked me what the word economics means, I explained it to her in a simple way and after processing it she said: "In my school they don't teach me the things they explain to "Richie Rich", but I have you (my husband and I) to teach me." That comparison made me laugh a lot.
In 2021, Bitcoin came into our lives to change the way we think and live. By that year, my daughter was 4 years old and she always saw my husband on the laptop looking at the graphs of Bitcoin, gold, among others. She would approach him out of curiosity to ask what it was. She was very young so my husband would explain it to her in a way that she could understand.
One day, while playing with her Barbies, she tells me: look mom, these are dad's (Ken) graphics:
It is supposed to be a screen they use in hospitals but she has never seen it like that, she says it is a computer with graphics.
Another day, my daughter was doing crafts with my husband, they made a flyer with applications (made of cardboard) and these were the ones she decided to "download": SN, McDonald's, WhatsApp, YouTube kids and Facebook (I didn't understand why if we don't use that)
Yes, she knows about SN because she hears us talk about it, she asks us questions and we answer her. I like that she is interested in learning about these topics and I want to take advantage of that curiosity to teach her.