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8/3/2015
From financial literacy to service learning, kids at Northwestern Mutual's McTigue Financial Group had a full day of building lifelong skills at the second annual Bring Your Kids to Work Day.
"As a financial security company, we know the importance of teaching children about money and planning for tomorrow," said Melanie Rose, Associate Financial Representative, "but equally important is teaching them to be compassionate and charitable." Her daughter's, Marley and Maya, participated in the event in downtown Chicago.
The day's agenda included an introduction to Penny the Pig, a four slotted piggy bank that provides choices for saving, spending, investing and donating. A scavenger hunt and coin toss awarded pennies as prizes and challenged the kids to select which slot to bank them. A presentation by 9-year-old Ethan Hughes, whose father, Robert Hughes is the firm's Chief Operating Officer, included a kid to kid talk about making, saving, spending and borrowing money.
Turning to community service, the kids created encouraging and uplifting hand-made cards that would be shared with hospitalized kids through Cards for Hospitalized Kids. They also hosted a lemonade stand that helped raise over $400 for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to raising money for pediatric cancer research. In 2014, The McTigue Financial Group announced a concerted community service effort to support the well-being of children and families facing pediatric cancer.
