Comments on: What My Parents Did Not Teach Me About Money

By: Debt Free Revolution

Debt Free Revolution — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:43:34 +0000

Condy, ABSOLUTELY people working for minimum wage or low-income jobs NEED to learn how to budget! Where is that commenter? I’ll tell them a thing or two! (Yes, that truly has my hackles up, as a “low income/minimum wage” worker.)

By: risingrainbow

risingrainbow — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:34:40 +0000

My parents didn’t teach me about money either. We didn’t ever have any and I guess it was just accepted as a fact of life we never would. There was no thought to there might be another way.

By: CindyS

CindyS — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:20:50 +0000

I think the biggest concern was budget but then there are those parents who don’t think that kids need personal finance. Sigh or as one commenter on my post said, why waste it on people who are only going to earn minimum wage. I personally think they are the ones who need it most.

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By: bouncing betty

bouncing betty — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:41:05 +0000

Like you, my parents never taught me about money and nothing about savings, budgets, etc. My grandparents opened up a savings account for me, I learned to balance my own checkbook by reading the back of my checking account statement and I learned how to really budget my money when I was in my mid 20′s and living on my own. AND after I made some silly mistakes. Some silly mistakes I repeated in my late 30′s as well. I do wonder sometimes if my fiscal life would have been different if I had a money management class in high school.

Why anyone would think a personal money management class was a bad idea is beyond me. I wish I had one in school, my parents never taught me, I wish they or someone had.

I think it’s like sex education, most folks are uncomfortable talking about it and they sure as shite don’t want it discussed in the schools, but they are not doing a good job teaching it at home. Money is still a taboo subject.