Principles To Engage Teenager's Interest In Financial Literacy


by Christina Hue - Date: 2007-02-09 - Word Count: 302 Share This!

How the three principles that I have share the last time help you in engaging your teen's interest in financial literacy?

Below are the other three principles that help to engage or re-engage teens in the interest of financial literacy strategies.

1. This principle teaches us that we must talk to the kids in the interest of their financial ideas and not ours. When trying to motivate children to learn don't think about what you want. Think about what they want and help them get it by offering them opportunities and options.

2. Be prepared to relinquish power or delegate whenever possible or in other words throw the teens a challenge. For safety, you have to be careful what decisions you allow them to make and how far down the wrong path you'll let them go before they get into trouble. But if you can stand the nerves, let them set off in the wrong directions for a while before they discover for themselves that your experience would have saved them

3. Be genuine and keenly interested in sharing great new financial tips with your family and when your children come to you with new ideas, return their excitement. Treat the negative experiences as learning opportunities.

I do hope that the 6 principles that I have shared will help you to create your teen's interest in financial literacy.

These principles will help you to engage your teens as our own parents weren't able to pass their financial knowledge and skill base to us. Please do not feel embarrassed about having holes in our own financial literacy because you'll be learning new things from your teens as they progress through each challenge. It is my hope that this discovery with your teenagers will help you rediscover your own aspiration for financial literacy.

The important thing in learning is that you must HAVE FUN


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