Empowering Families: The Stages of Financial Education (Ep. 3)

Unlock your family’s financial potential! 

Discover how to transform everyday moments into powerful lessons in financial literacy. Are you making the most of your child’s learning potential?

In this episode, Joline Godfrey and Amber Slattery discuss the different stages of financial education, emphasizing that it’s a lifelong process. 

They highlight the importance of financial parenting and integrating financial lessons with a family’s values. The discussion also covers how to effectively teach children about money at different ages.

Joline and Amber:

• How financial education should be tailored to developmental stages, not just chronological age
• The concept of financial parenting, highlighting the importance of parents being mindful of the habits and values they pass on to their children
• The significance of starting financial education early, even as young as 18 months, and using “teachable moments” to instill financial language and values
• The need for consistency in financial messaging from parents and the impact of these messages on children as they grow
• That financial capability includes intellectual, social, and human capital, in addition to money
• And more!

Resources:

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Connect with Joline Godfrey:

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• LinkedIn: Joline Godfrey
• [e-mail]

Connect with Amber J. Slattery:

• LinkedIn: Amber J. Slattery
• [e-mail]