Comments on: Five-year-olds to be given compulsory lessons on money, savings and debt http://financedad.com/five-year-olds-to-be-given-compulsory-lessons-on-money-savings-and-debt/ Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mackenzie http://financedad.com/five-year-olds-to-be-given-compulsory-lessons-on-money-savings-and-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Mackenzie Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:27:58 +0000 http://financedad.com/?p=1945#comment-101 I would've loved not just compulsory finance classes in school, but at least optional ones! If they'd been offered in my schools, I would have taken them; instead I managed money the same way my impoverished parent did, which was basically to live on nothing and spend everything I managed to scrimp together on basic essentials. I do remember taking a "life skills" class in 7th grade, though... we were taught how to use a typewriter (this was in the early days of Apple computers, so they were teaching us useless life skills :D) and how to write out a check. Not how to keep track of what our checking balance was... just what to write on each line of the check. Really useful stuff, if overdrafts are your thing... I would’ve loved not just compulsory finance classes in school, but at least optional ones! If they’d been offered in my schools, I would have taken them; instead I managed money the same way my impoverished parent did, which was basically to live on nothing and spend everything I managed to scrimp together on basic essentials.

I do remember taking a “life skills” class in 7th grade, though… we were taught how to use a typewriter (this was in the early days of Apple computers, so they were teaching us useless life skills :D ) and how to write out a check. Not how to keep track of what our checking balance was… just what to write on each line of the check. Really useful stuff, if overdrafts are your thing…

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