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Your 5-year-old daughter has started asking for money to buy sweets and toys. She obviously has a good understanding of the concept of exchanging money for items she wants or needs, but what are the important lessons you should teach kids about money and saving. You want to make sure that she doesn't grow up into one of those kids that are constantly pestering mom and dad for money, running up credit card debts as a teenager, and not having any idea how to save. There are ...

The education bureaucracy has really done us a disservice by failing to teach students two important things: economics and how to handle money. Most parents can?t teach their children how to handle money because they were not taught themselves. This is a vicious cycle, and it needs to stop. Someone, either the schools or the parents, need to teach children how to stay out of debt and how to handle their money.

Many children find themselves hopelessly in debt after leaving home. They go off to college, wanting to take on the world. The independence they suddenly experience leads to decisions that are not always best for them.