Money Smart: Raising Finance-Wise Kids

Building: 46-3189 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences)

Presenter: Jeanne Mahan, M.A.; Senior Manager of College Finance, Bright Horizons Education & College Advising

This seminar will share best practices on teaching your children about earning money, saving, budgeting, taxes, investments, and credit. Parents will be empowered to incorporate these financial concepts into their children’s everyday lives. A financial educator will provide you with:

  • Suggestions on allowances and other ways children can earn money
  • Strategies for teaching children how to budget to achieve short- and long-term saving and spending goals
  • Tips for introducing children to the principles of taxation, investing, and using credit wisely
  • Concrete, age-appropriate exercises to do with children that promote good finance behavior