While researching a magazine article on âraising money-smart kids,â I felt sorry for parents and terribly worried about their children. (Also greatly relieved that I am not raising kids today.)
The article, for Consumers Digest, ran to a few thousand words. Short form: Our children face serious money temptations and pressures, and generally receive very little useful info either from parents or schools.
They also face consequences more serious than their parents ever did. We’re not talking about a few bounced checks or some other financial oopsie that you remember from your own early adulthood. An 18-year-old without sufficient financial savvy could within five years find himself: