Here are some of the most common excuses we hear about why parents don’t want their kids to have a financial education – and our response.

Entrepreneurship programs are missing one key element – financial literacy.

While it is incredibly important to teach teens how to invest, it is equally important to ensure that they first have a good grounding in basic financial literacy.

We keep telling our kids that they are the leaders of tomorrow… Well, we are the leaders today, what are we doing to ensure positive change?

Schools spend all their time teaching kids WHAT to learn but maybe they should focus a bit more on teaching kids ‘HOW’ to learn.

Most of us wish we had learned about investing earlier in our lives so why not teach teens about investing now?

Most teens while doing reasonably well in school and staying out of trouble for the most part, seem to have a stunted sense of purpose.

My 11-year-old daughter Kyra came out of one of our mindset training sessions all excited. She ran to me and asked “Mum, is this meant to be a secret?”

Nobody would bring a sword to a gunfight – not unless they had a death wish. Yet this seems to be a good analogy of how we’re equipping our kids for the future.

Most parents haven’t had the money talk with their kids. And who can blame us?