Excellent, very very complete and well structured guide for parents!
I highly recommend this book to both parents and educators to teach children the value of money, manage it, and provide them with invaluable lifelong tools, much needed to thrive, which are hardly taught at home or at school. This financial education should be a progressive and integral task, as parents must be consistent, take advantage of the circumstances of everyday life to create habits, and education must be based on principles.
In our complex consumer society and high advertising exposure this task may be easier if we get that saving is attractive to the children, and if we favor a smart choice of what the child is going to buy is a better acquisition, for his/her effort to postpone to a greater benefit.
Beth Kobliner explains how parents can teach their children to be smarter in spending money, from the basics of money and developing the habit of saving, credit cards, insurance, retirement plan, to key concepts on investments, and more. Each topic proposes examples based on real cases, developing the subject appropriate for each age group to teach from toddlers to young adults.
The book contains very nice comments from suggestions for handling tantrums during shopping to the smartest way for young people to pay for their wedding. It has very useful features with key points or rules for each topic, for example the 10 Investment rules for your Kid to Live by and The Money Genius Guide to Understanding your Paycheck, to mention a few. It also has a very interesting chapter that talks about giving, giving back from what we have received in life; this is very important, since sharing and contributing helps children to have more meaning, lead a more balanced and integral life, which translates into more happiness in life.
The author also mentions interesting information about recent research on how children who learn to manage their emotions - postpone their momentary cravings to achieve something they truly desire - become more responsible for the reach of their economic decisions, resulting in adults who save more, are more successful, reach higher levels of education, manage money as a resource that allows them to achieve many things in life.
My gratitude to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book

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