Money can’t buy happiness, they say. Let not burden teens with learning about money, they say. Teens need to focus on their grades and getting into good universities, we shouldn’t fill their heads with ideas of riches and wealth prematurely, they say. That’s a load…

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We know how important it is to learn about money. We realize that our teenagers will undoubtedly be better off with this skill.

A couple of years ago, I was invited to a school to talk to the Yr 7 kids about the importance of financial education and during the conversation one of the girls said that she didn’t think she needed to learn about money because she intended to marry a rich man.