Children’s Day: It’s okay to be the villain of the scene at times

When Rakhee, 13, and Sneh, 8, got a Polaroid camera from their parents a few days before Diwali, they made up their minds to click a lot of pictures during the festivities. Their financial planner mother, Mrin Agarwal, 44, knew the films were very expensive, and asked the girls to think well before clicking pictures so that they don’t run out of films or waste any of them. “I get to hear things like, ‘Oh god! You’re always saying this to us but our friends don’t get to hear this from their parents’,” said Mrin, financial educator, founder director of Finsafe India Pvt. Ltd and co-founder of Womantra. She doesn’t mind becoming the villain of the scene sometimes if being firm can help her daughters understand the value of money.

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