3 Essential Money Attitudes to Instill in Teenagers
Parenting is hard, even when we know what to do. So, it’s no wonder we find teaching our teenagers about money extremely challenging. Most of us haven’t had the luxury of being financially educated ourselves. Add to that our perennial shortage of time, patience and…
3 Things We Should Teach Our Teens About Money
Money is intricately entwined in every aspect our lives, at every stage of our lives. So it stands to reason that we should be expertly trained in the skill of money management and financial decision making from an early age. Yet because this isn’t for…
Enough with the sham initiatives – Gen Z deserve more when it comes to financial education
Enough with the sham initiatives – Gen Z deserve more when it comes to financial education Money. It’s the one thing most adults lose sleep over, stress over and fight over. Yet oddly enough, it’s the one topic we aren’t intentionally preparing the next generation…
Why Teach Your Teens About Money?
The short answer is because you have the most to lose, (other than your teens) if you don’t. Money is intricately entwined with almost every aspect of adulthood, from deciding on a career, a credit card, a car loan, a mortgage and investment options to…
The Fault In Our Stars
If the powers be had a diabolical plan to keep much of the world’s population subservient, stressed and short-sighted, because that suited their business interests — all they would have to do is deliberately ensure that much of world’s population is unschooled in the subject…
Seek First to Understand
It’s in our nature to look for quick fixes, instant gratification and magic bullets. We hastily throw half baked solutions at convoluted, insidious problems and are very quick to fly the ‘mission accomplished’ banner high and proud. It makes us feel smart and decisive. It…
Ring In The New…
It’s the start of another year…a clean slate…a fresh start. We’re handed a chance to change the way we eat, pray, love and behave for the next 356 days so that this time next year we can feel a bit better about ourselves. So won’t…
Sitting on the Sidelines
Given our experiences with money, the mistakes we’ve made and what we wish we knew about money when we were younger, how is it that we parents aren’t up in arms? How come we aren’t calling for massive, decisive action to fix what we must…
The Unsavory Alternative
There is real resistance to changing the status quo around financial education, or rather the lack of it. A lack of funds, resources and time, are the causes most commonly cited. None of these stand the test of reason. One just has to consider the…
The Eloquence of Blah Blah Blah
Greta Thunberg’s speech at the Youth4Climate Summit last week was a masterclass in eloquence and in calling out BS from world leaders for failing to act on climate change. A classic case of the telling emperor he wasn’t wearing any clothes. The blah blah blah…
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