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Topic Challenge: Capital Allocation & Investment with Kids
Welcome back to the BIG Home Ed Conversations Podcast. In this episode, Kelly and Ashley share how they tackled a surprisingly big topic with their kids: capital allocation and investing — including spending vs saving, risk, impulse buying, and how money habits form early (for better or worse).
In this episode, we chat about:
Why this topic matters (and why most of us weren’t taught it!)
Helping kids understand spend / save / invest / give
Kelly’s “family token currency” experiment (spend pot, save pot, investment pot + family pot)
How risk works (and why investing can go up or down)
Monopoly…
The skinny
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