Carve Out a Competive Distinction

Offering financial literacy to each generation within the family represents a substantial opportunity for financial services professionals aiming to forge deep, trusted, and long lasting connections with parents, grandparents, educators, and nonprofit organizations.

When considering the family as a network or entity, it encompasses mutliple levels:

• parents, grandparents

• children

• extended family members - adults and children

• friends and other connections across the various levels above.

While the opportunities are more evident when focusing on the adult generation, investing into younger generations may be less obvious and richly rewarding. Aiming at younger generations is precisely where financial service professionals and enterprises may be able to carve out a competitive distinction as well as cultivate deeper, enduring relationships that have the potential to yield returns now and for years to come.

Empower Adults to Educate Kids and Themsevles

Empowering parents, teachers, instructors, and community leaders with knowledge and resources to guide children in developing effective money habits lays the groundwork for a lifetime marked by financial freedom, abundant opportunities, and enduring security.

This value proposition is particularly significant for the aforementioned audiences who, for various reasons, encounter challenges when discussing financial matters with children. Furthermore, what amplifies this value is the flip side:

• if children adopt ineffective money habits early on, it can lead to heightened instability, insecurity, stress, restricted freedom, and a cycle of debt persisting into adulthood;

plus,

• it very likely adults will augment their personal finance knowledge and improve their money management practices in the process;

• and, many schools do not offer financial education.

The Challenge

Despite its apparent simplicity, what often goes unnoticed is the research from Cambridge University indicating that adults' money habits and attitudes are formed as early as age seven. This finding is monumental, as many, including experts, remain unaware of it. Even among those who are aware, there's often a lack of action or acknowledgment regarding the necessity of commencing financial education at an early age.

Engaging in conversations about money with children aged seven and younger reveals that they already possess thoughts, emotions, and attitudes about finances. Primarily, their mindset tends to focus on spending, often without much consideration for wise financial choices. If these associations become deeply ingrained in their minds, hearts, habits, behaviors, and beliefs, it could lead to detrimental outcomes.

The pervasive influence of consumer messaging significantly contributes to the plethora of commercial stimuli kids encounter daily. By age seven, children may have already absorbed countless messages urging them to "buy this, buy that, charge this, charge that" from all the popular family and household brands.

Regrettably, excessive exposure to consumer messaging isn't the sole obstacle to children cultivating healthy money habits. Despite their best intentions, parents, schools, and the financial education industry also play a role in exacerbating this challenge.

According to a Standard and Poor's Global Financial Literacy study, roughly 52% of adults worldwide possess financial literacy. This suggests that, whether knowingly or unknowingly, the financial lessons and role modeling provided by parents to their children may be flawed.

At the end of 2023, only 25 states require students to take a stand-alone personal finance course in order to graduate. Consequently, personal finance education is scarce in schools. Even if offered, it typically occurs in high school, seven to ten years after children's money habits and attitudes are already established.

Moreover, the financial education industry has largerly mirrored the approach taken by schools, directing its efforts towards teenagers and college students.

Some How To's

You can help make it easy for adults to educate kids on money by ensuring that your financial planning meetings, communications, blogs, and social media posts integrate messaging on youth financial education.

You can conduct workshops and promote concepts such as general saving, saving for specific goals, and saving for college.

You can share insights on earning money, investing wisely, responsible spending, charitable giving, credit cards, debit cards, compound interest, and the rule of 72.

These fundamental money topics will empower children to develop a robust understanding of personal finance and help motivate them to establish essential money habits.

Not only will you discover personal fulfillment in these endeavors, but you will also cultivate enduring, trusted, multi-generational relationships that enhance the prosperity of your business! It's a win-win-wn plan and strategy!

Your Invited - How You Can Help Grow the Good!

1. Give custom, co-branded Sammy Rabbit story and activity books to kids in your local community and/or network.

2. Collaborate and partner with Sammy on "1" project in 2024: See a Menu of Ideas or suggest your own.

Contact Sammy to explore more options.

5 Reasons Why Education Promotion Products Add Value

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1. Relevance to Audience: Educational promotional products align directly with the interests and needs of the target audience, making them more likely to be valued and used, thereby initiating discussions about relevant topics.

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Companion Reads, Listens, and Resources

• Join Sammy Rabbit's Money School Today for Free!

• Money Lesson 1 Parents Should Teach Kids

• Have a conversation with kids about the money song: Get in the Habit

• What Role Does the Financial Literacy of Children Play in a Family's Ability to Achieve Financial Stability? - Series: Part 1

• One of the Most Significant Benefits of Family Financial Wellness Programs - Series: Part 1

• Financial Education that Starts with a Story

• Financial Education that Starts with a Song

Financial Service Professionals

Here a few of the financial service professional groups who can benefit from Sammy Rabbit education products.

• Broker, Financial Advisors, Daily Money Coach, Financial Coach, Financial Therapist

• CFP - Certified Financial Planner

• CPA - Certifed Public Account, Tax Preparer, Enrolled Agent

• CLU - Chartered Life Underwriter, Insurance Agent

• CFEI - Certified Financial Education Instructor

• Real Estate Agent, Mortgage Lender

• Estate planner

• Trust Officer, Bank and Credit Union Community Outreach and Reinvestment

• Credit and Debt Counselor

• Financial Educator