Raising Money-Savvy, Financially-Literate Kids

Teach Your Kids How to Make Every Cent Count

What you'll learn

Learn techniques to teach your children to become money-savvy, financially literate children.

Learn best practices, strategies, and valuable lessons you can share with your child about spending, saving, investing, and giving.

Explore teaching opportunities, activities and challenges your children will love, that will teach them about finance and budgeting.

Learn how to incorporate discussions about finance into your children's daily lives so that talking about money becomes natural, encouraged, and embraced.

Learn how to teach your children the value of money so that they don't take money for granted.

Explore a variety of ways your children can make money and learn new twists on some traditional money-making ideas.

Learn ways children can manage their money using a variety of age-appropriate tools.

Requirements

You must be an adult to take this course.

No experience or prior knowledge needed. You will learn everything you need to know.

You will need a PDF Reader/Viewer or Editor to download the handouts, and a printer if you would like to print any documents.

Description

Welcome to Raising Money-Savvy, Financially-Literate Kids!  We are going to learn how to teach kids at an early age to manage money, in order to set them up for a successful financial future.We are going to talk about the importance of getting money into the hands of kids and what they should be doing with all of their money.We'll address the pros and cons of allowances, and talk about kids and entrepreneurship. How about some new twists on some traditional money-making ideas? Let's get creative! We are going to find ways to incorporate teaching opportunities into our children's daily lives so that talking about money becomes natural, encouraged and embraced.We are going to learn valuable lessons about spending, saving, investing and giving, learning through activities that your children can do independently, as a family, and with friends, as well as ways to get them involved with the community. I'll include challenges that your kids are going to have so much fun doing!We'll also discuss what to do when financial mistakes happen.   And, since we have tech-savvy kids, we are going to make them into money-savvy kids by introducing some apps that can assist them in reaching their financial goals.Additionally, I'll provide plenty of checklists, hand-outs and activities so that you can start teaching your children about financial literacy right away.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome to the Course

Lecture 2 The Importance of Raising Financially-Literate Children

Lecture 3 What You'll Learn In This Course

Section 2: Parents As Role Models

Lecture 4 Walk The Talk

Section 3: Earning Money To Learn About Money

Lecture 5 The Allowance Conundrum

Lecture 6 Young Entrepreneurs

Section 4: Teaching Opportunities And Challenges Children Will Love

Lecture 7 Introduction

Lecture 8 Taste Test Challenge

Lecture 9 Yard Sale

Lecture 10 Budgeting for Lunch

Lecture 11 Movie Night

Lecture 12 Tipping

Lecture 13 Banking Day

Section 5: Money Management Tools

Lecture 14 Money Jars

Lecture 15 Money Management Apps

Section 6: Spending, Saving, Investing, Giving

Lecture 16 Spending

Lecture 17 Saving

Lecture 18 Investing

Lecture 19 Giving

Section 7: Where Did All The Money Go?

Lecture 20 Learning From Financial Mistakes

Section 8: Final Thoughts

Lecture 21 Conclusion

This course is designed for parents interested in raising financially-literate children. You must be an adult to take this course.,This course includes activities that are best-suited for children 6-12 years old.