
Teach your children money basics through six practical steps, covering what money is, budgeting, spending, saving, investing, and handling allowances, while modeling money habits for a financially wise family.
Learn to talk to your kids about money in clear terms, tailor discussions to age levels and personality styles, and establish regular distraction-free family meetings to build financial literacy.
Teach money to children across five developmental stages, with stage-appropriate activities and family involvement. Adapt guidance to four money personality styles: sensitive, active, good natured, and social.
Learn how to teach your children money values through generosity, gratitude, and humility, showing that money cannot solve all problems and love matters most.
Learn how to create an effective allowance policy that teaches kids money management through a fixed or earned allowance, balancing work, spending, saving, and responsible decision-making.
Learn four ways to set your child's allowance, including current spending, age, peer benchmarks, and chores, while teaching budgeting, saving, and charitable giving.
Learn to teach kids to manage money by saving, investing, and spending wisely, with healthy spending habits, a simple spending plan, and short-term financial goals.
Teach kids to save wisely by understanding saving, interest, and inflation, using piggy banks, savings accounts, and early investments; build a safe investment triangle and learn risk versus reward.
Learn practical strategies to handle money problems with your kids, including nagging, the gimme mode, overspending, and borrowing, and teach delayed gratification, cash is king, and responsible spending.
Explore fun, practical ways to teach kids money through i-spy, calculations quizzes, and saving activities. Includes a bonus e-book with money attitudes, banking basics, earning, budgeting, and chores.
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If you want to set your kids on their path to financial freedom; if you want to experience the satisfaction of having kids who can successfully budget their own spending and saving and cope better with the demands of the adult world; if you want your kids to stop costing you a fortune; …then this might be the most important course you'll ever attend. Welcome to ' How to Raise Money Wise Kids'.
Your instructor for this course is Dr. Sharon Malan. Sharon has been involved in the educational field for more than 24 years. Her work during this time has included various forms of parent teacher counselling, lecturing, teaching and community training.
She has been a university lecturer for many years in the faculty of Educational Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch. She is currently also the marketing director of a successful educational company. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and Specialised Education. She has two daughters, two sons, a 'hubby', one lazy cat and a few hyperactive dogs. She enjoys writing, listening to good music, walking, exercising and talking, of course.
So, what is this course all about?
The purpose of this course is to provide you with 6 practical, easy steps to help you teach your kids (ranging from 4 to 21 years) all the basics they'll need to know about money and how to manage it wisely.
What makes this course unique?
One: It explains to you step-by-step how to take into account your kids' personality types before teaching them about money. Failing to do this, might have dire consequences. Kids differ, and because they differ they need to be taught differently. If you don't teach your kids differently you're going to struggle applying even the best ideas you can find on this topic.
Two: It explains financial information in a straightforward, practical way making it easily understandable for parents and kids who are not well versed in the topic of money management.
Three: It takes into consideration the different ages and developmental stages of kids before embarking upon teaching them important money management skills.
Four: It makes the learning process fun, Fun and much more FUN. Alfred Mercier said it best - "What we learn with pleasure we never forget."
Five: It is a valuable resource that you can refer to over and over again as your kids' needs begin to change once they get older.
Six: It contains the most essential lessons kids need to learn about money in one handy guide, thereby making the learning process as powerful and time-efficient as possible.
Seven: It provides you with lots of practical ready-to-use age appropriate activities, tips and ideas to improve your kids' money sense and help them develop good spending and saving habits for life.
Eight: It guides you to inspire your kids to stay committed and disciplined and to follow through with their financial plans in a way that does not compromise their moral values.
Nine: It provides practical ways to overcome any financial obstacles your kids may encounter.
Ten: It shows you exactly how to start your kids financial education at a tender age (from 4 years), because the earlier you start, the easier it gets!
As a special gift, Sharon has also made available to all enrolled students, free of charge, her best-selling eBook 'How to Raise Money Wise Kids'.
Hope to see you soon!