Mac Gardner - Teaching Kids About Money: Essential Tips for Building Financial Literacy Early

Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

Tune in to hear:

- What life experiences gave rise to Mac Gardner’s mission to improve financial literacy particularly among children?

- What is Mac’s book, The Four Money Bears, all about and how has his experience been when sharing it with others all over the globe?

- Does Mac have any particularly memorable anecdotes about sharing the book in a classroom setting, or elsewhere, where he learned something unique from kids' reactions? 

- Where are we falling short as a society and industry that’s allowing people to have such a huge gap in their financial education?

- Financial literacy education efforts often show lackluster results. How can we make financial literacy work for us in practice and not just in theory?

- What does Mac think the future of gamification will look like with respect to financial literacy?

- How can we properly use allowance to better teach our kids about the value of a dollar?

- How can parents with privilege help their kids gain some perspective on things?

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