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What's a good starting point to research the idea of teaching financial literacy to older adolescents/younger adults? Have you ever experienced a course or seminar like this at that age?

Asked by kevbo (25672points) July 21st, 2008

I think I’d enjoy teaching older adolescents and/or younger adults about negotiating their finances and looking at what that responsibility is likely to turn into when they become adults. My spin on the subject would probably include ideas about frugality, examples of how we typically accumulate “stuff” over our lifetimes, and strategies to make the money/stuff/life equation work for the individual. So (in the vein of say a Citibank commercial) I’d want it to be not just about money, but also about how money is a tool to advance one’s life. I’d also want it to overcome the eye glaze inducing “save all your life for retirement” style of messaging.

My first draft vision of this is something that’s a traveling seminar/book sale type thing a la your typical seminar guru. What feedback would you give this idea in terms of its worth/market demand and what would make it successful? Does it already exist in some other form?

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