| Resumo: | Between 1925 and 1945, school savings or ahorro escolar became one of the most important programs for Mexico's Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP; Public Education Ministry), interested in offering economic and financial education to children and to the general population. In the face of oncoming consumer society, the program aimed at developing in children new habits and a sense of foresight. Besides, by contributing to school savings accounts, children would become familiarized with bank operations. The issue of children's savings spurred debates, conflicts, and negotiations between families and authorities, even between school principals and the SEP itself. This program clearly conveys government efforts regarding not only the private lives of families and their relations with money, but also new money-related feelings and practices. Children, parents, schools, and government become subjects immersed in a broad spectrum of new monetary relations.
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