re: What level do you talk with your kids about this crazy world?

My daughter is 11 and we talk about self reliance, managing money, life goals, consequences. She learned to shoot at 4, hunt and fish by 7, and can clean/cook stuff she catches/kills now. She can look at normal household repairs and use hand tools to fix them.

She gets her own pocket money (100.00) a month on a debit card to keep track of her spending and learn about money. This has done wonders to curtail the “I want it” phase with everything. It teaches her to save and plan instead of impulse buy. Next month she is getting a 25.00 raise and she is planning on trying prepaid Mint mobile service so she can use her phone away from Wi-Fi.

My hope is that by teaching her to be a strong independent female she will naturally trend towards a more conservative outlook. By teaching her to at least try to handle stuff herself she will not look for someone else to fix her issues. By learning the value of money she will not be buried in debt looking for someone else to fix her money issues. And the last thing I do is we only go to church casually. Because I want her to have faith in God but we are somewhere between the Easter/Christmas church goers and the every time the doors open folks. I want her to enjoy it not view it as a chore.


The thing I wish I could give her that I had is the great world tour. I had the Asian and African tour as a child had a baseline to compare a couple different economic systems to. That pretty much guaranteed I would never support communism or socialism. She has met and sat in with friends that I’ve met in my travels. Hopefully those accounts are enough.