{"id":280797,"date":"2026-01-12T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/280797\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:13:09","slug":"childrens-bank-accounts-from-christmas-gifts-to-confirmation-earnings-heres-how-to-help-your-children-manage-their-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/280797\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s bank accounts \u2013 from Christmas gifts to confirmation earnings, here\u2019s how to help your children manage their money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">January often sees children have more money in their pockets than usual, so we asked parents how they manage cash with kids\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"When children first come into money, where should you instruct them to store it? Photo: Getty.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/16999900-3211-453d-8953-d1aabec81d9c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">When children first come into money, where should you instruct them to store it? Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Financially, being a teenager is an exciting time. You might have your first part-time job, or a bit of cash from babysitting. You\u2019re likely to have your first experience of shopping, buying cinema tickets, or going for meals with friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Christmas, too, can be a prosperous time, as kind aunts and uncles and grandparents press crisp notes into small hands. For 2nd and 6th class students around the country, upcoming communions and confirmations may mean that their money cups doth runneth over for the first time. It begs the question: where should the money go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January often sees children have more money in their pockets than usual, so we asked parents how they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,10927,24322],"class_list":{"0":"post-280797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-revolut","13":"tag-saoirse-hanley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}