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FUN
STUFF
Extract from Your Kids' Money
Financial
literacy for the whole family, including handy hints, shortcuts
and role playing games to help students and parents achieve financial
proficiency together...
"The only book in Australia that brings all the major topics for financial literacy into one place for easy reference... funny, helpful and concise..." Jude Thompson, Teacher Librarian.
Extract from the intro...
The only person who can design a fully flexible, reliable and portable financial strategy that perfectly suits your own situation, or that of your family, is YOU. Because you and your children are the only ones who can comprehensively compare quantitative values (things that can be measured or touched like value-for-money, tax effectiveness and cost) with qualitative values (intangible and immeasurable things that are just as important, like convenience, "enjoyability" and suitability to your future goals.) The rest of us can only show you what's possible, in order to help you discover adaptability, protective-cynicism and determination - the three keys to fast-tracking your child's financial independence safely.
Sample of topics from the index:
- Planting your own money trees
- Advance budget planning for babies
- Stockpiling assets and preparing finances for birth
- How kids effect your borrowing capacity
- Getting the best out of Centrelink and other payments
- Surviving parental leave
- Planning educational costs, including scholarships from Kindy to uni
- Tools for teaching financial topics to each age group
- Pocket money and alternative strategies that also encourage happier families
- First jobs, taxes and budgets
- Industry-level literacy for job-seeking teenagers
- The Game Zone - financial bedtime stories and cash games for toddlers to teenagers
- The GAP years - for ages 18 to 21, including working holidays, uni costs, international volunteering, hobby/business paperwork, car insurance, booze, entertainment and more.
- Major opportunities that most parents, schools and students are unaware of
- The Sweet 16 - extra support skills to add booster rockets to your
teenager's financial future, including:
- learning to prioritise,
- jargon interpretation,
- career planning,
- change management,
- rage management,
- customer service,
- surviving workplace personalities,
- asserting consumer rights,
- respect for laws and tax obligations,
- networking,
- cash handling,
- negotiating and bartering,
- pride, initiative and willingness in your work,
- plus role playing games and more.