According to traditional Tet customs, every New Year, children will receive lucky money from adults as a wish for good luck. Therefore, many parents will allow their children to keep all this money and not interfere.
However, allowing children to keep lucky money can create many risks that parents should be careful about. The article below will point out 3 typical risks of this.
Children are excited to receive lucky money on Tet holiday. (Illustration photo)
Consider lucky money as personal property
When receiving lucky money, children will automatically assume that the money belongs to them and keep it for themselves, without consulting their parents. From there, they form the habit of looking at how much everyone else's lucky money envelopes are and keeping it for themselves, parents do not have the right to use this money.
In addition, the habit of keeping private property not only creates competition between siblings but also creates greed for property and competition with parents. It is easy to maintain the mindset of owning private property, causing children to lose their morality from a young age.
Even the custom of giving lucky money on Tet holiday is gradually becoming a way for children to beg and enjoy material things. They no longer appreciate the fact that adults give them lucky money, but it becomes an income during Tet holiday.
Form the habit of calculation
The custom of giving lucky money during the Lunar New Year is gradually being distorted and becoming a factor that negatively affects children's personalities. For example, when neighbors come to wish each other a Happy New Year, parents will see how much the other family gives their children and then give back the same amount or a little more.
This action of parents unintentionally forms bad habits for children. Because children will also calculate how much this person gives, how much that person gives, what their "income" is today and judge good and bad through money.
From then on, awkward situations also occurred such as children only knowing how to receive lucky money, and even opening it right away to see how much they received, making adults very embarrassed.
Difficult to control children's spending
When children have a large amount of money, they can freely use it to go out or shop. All of these things are easily out of the control of parents. Moreover, because they are in the age of development, children often like their own things, if parents cannot control their children's use of money, it will be very dangerous.
Therefore, parents need to know how to guide their children to have the right perception about lucky money, to avoid creating awkward situations during Tet.
Anh Anh (Synthesis)
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