How To Teach Our Kids About Money So They Actually Remember The Information Later

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Santa Barbara, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) February 6, 2011 -- Santa Barbara, CA. – People everywhere are talking about the economy. Most of the talk is negative but Creative Wealth continually turns out teachers who empower our youth to not make the same financial mistakes many of their parents made.

You'd think the answer would simply be to make financial education in schools mandatory. Only problem with that is that studies are saying that financial education doesn't work.

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How To Teach Our Kids About Money So They Actually Remember The Information Later

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The truth, however, is that most financial education programs don't work. And they don't because they are boring, irrelevant and only taught during one semester or term.

If you tried to teach math or English or any topic for one semester only, that program wouldn't work either. And by not working, we mean students don't remember, and hence can't use, the information they are being taught.

That being said, teachers, bankers and financial advisors across the nation are indeed developing a passion to teach kids the financial basics they as adults. But in order for this information to stick, financial education must be experiential and relevant. And it's not rocket science to create financial education lessons and activities that students really get and enjoy.

The Camp Millionaire Train-the-Trainer, March 20-24, 2011 in Santa Barbara, shows financial education promoters how easy it is to turn those boring money lectures into fun, memorable, activity lessons that produce adults who manage their money better than their many of their parents have.

"We must revolutionize our nation's financial literacy programs or we're going to continue raising adults who haven't a clue how to manage, or invest, their money," says Elisabeth Donati, a nationally-recognized expert at teaching basic financial principles to our youth. Donati, creator of Camp Millionaire and The Money Game, has been teaching kids and teens about money since 2002, after teaching herself about money in her 30's.

"Money lessons have to be relevant and activity-oriented if you want kids to remember the information," says Elisabeth, "otherwise you might as well be talking to a wall." Donati explains, "By using 'active learning techniques (also called Accelerated Learning),' kids learn about money by experiencing money.

Donati suggests these simple techniques to make financial lesson plans memorable:

1. Enroll your students in the lesson by asking questions to get them interested in the subject matter. They need to know, "What's in this for me?" Tell them.

2. Ask Don't Tell. Have a conversation with your students by asking them plenty of questions. Involve them instead of telling them what to do with their money.

3. Turn every lesson into an activity. Don't just talk about budgets...create budgets. Transform a boring lecture on credit cards and the dangers of bad debt into a real-life simulation that has kids using credit cards and paying the bank back with interest from money they earn by 'working' for you.

Accelerated learning techniques turn every money lesson into a lesson that shapes a life. Let students experience the lessons and they'll remember them forever.

Creative Wealth Intl., LLC is hosting several financial Train-the-Trainer workshops in 2011. Discount rates available for teachers and nonprofit.

For more information, visit www.CampMillionaire.com/TrainTheTrainer.php or call 805-957-1024. For more information about Elisabeth, visit www.ElisabethDonati.com.

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