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  • Published: 1 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9781775531517
  • Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

Start Talking Cents

Teach Your Children & Teens to Manage Money



Practical advice on the money issues families face, including how to raise children to be smart with money.

Practical advice on the money issues families face, including how to raise children to be smart with money.

How does a family navigate its way through the financial uncertainties in today's economy? How do parents ensure that their children will grow up with a positive, realistic understanding of the role of money in their lives? How do we ensure that they will grow up to be financially savvy, debt free, and ready to face the risks and opportunities of their future? That's what this book is about.

Written by a highly regarded financial adviser, Start Talking Cents covers: how to teach money skills to children - from preschoolers to 18-year-olds; pocket money and allowances; working kids; saving and investing; peer pressure and your children's money habits; should financial skills be taught at school?; and paying for your child's education.

  • Published: 1 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9781775531517
  • Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

About the author

Susanna Stuart

Susanna Stuart, author of Start Talking Cents: Teach your children and teens to manage money, is a financial adviser who started her own highly successful business, Stuart + Carlyon, after a decade as a senior financial adviser at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A certified financial planner, authorised financial adviser, and member of the Institute of Financial Advisers, Susanna has experience in the money markets, share-broking and trustee services.From November 1996 to February 2012 she wrote a monthly financial advice column for Next magazine. Her other book is Your Family Fortune: Money strategies for you and your family. Susanna is a director on the board of the Surf Lifesaving Northern Region.