Every year parents spends billions of dollars on Christmas and holiday gifts on their children. Most of these Christmas gifts are toys and other frivolous things that usually don’t last for more than a month.

Parents always, ask me how do I teach my children about money. I always say they learn from their parents first. And those parents can create situations that strategically can help instruct their children about financial and business issues.

If you were to buy some of the stocks as gifts for birthdays and holidays, like Christmas to teach your children about investing it would make it convenient and easy to talk about these companies and would create an awesome teachable moment.

Take a look at the listing of stocks below and tell me if you can see how you could have money conversations with your children if you brought these stocks as gifts for your children.

1.) Disney (Dis)

2.)Apple (aapl)

3.)McDonald’s(MCD)

4.) Procter & Gamble (PG)

5.) Hasbro ( HAS)

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