THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC UPBRINGING IN THE FORMATION OF PERSONALITY

The article emphasizes the importance of starting children's economic upbringing from the early ages in order to properly build their future economic lives. It is shown that if children are properly educated from the early ages, they will be able to manage their household and personal economic affairs skillfully in the future like real men and women. It is explained that it is possible to form such personality-oriented qualities as thrift, hard work, responsibility, honesty, caring, activity, independence, initiative, prudence and demandingness in children by forming economic culture in them from the early ages. In order for children's economic upbring-ing to be more effective, it is very important to create a cognitive interest in economics in them. The for-mation of a cognitive interest in the positive norms and values of socio-economic life shows the role of eco-nomic education in the formation of personality. As a result of economic upbringing, many qualities are re-vealed and developed in children and thus children acquire the skills to act and behave adequately in various situations. The place and effects of criteria and indicators based on theoretical research and practical experi-ence in the process of economic upbringing are examined, methods and techniques of economic education are shown and topics are proposed. Methods such as projects, stories, conversations, dialogues, didactic games and modeling are used in economic upbringing. It is emphasized that plot-based didactic games help to under-stand labor activity and correctly follow the rules in any environment. The role of the family and parents is very important in developing economic mentality in children and forming a caring attitude towards the envi-ronment.