For the past few years, most young people have proved to have an inadequate knowledge of how to manage their personal finances after they finished their education. This is due to lack of life experience and limited education that could be solved in several ways.
Living with their parents for free have been one of the main reasons of why they lack of experience. As a result, young people would not worry about the value of money on how to earn and to save their money. Moreover, schools curriculum does not include personal financial management, whereas schools are more focused on classic subjects, thus students might only learn calculating money, however, does not know how to manage them. Therefore, both teachers and parents are failing to prepare young people for real world.
To solve young people inadequate ability to manage personal finances, schools and parents have a significant roles. For parents, when children are young or already exposed to money, they should have teach them on how money is earned, budgeted, and saved. It could be done by giving limited pocket money so that young children could learn to budget their own money and giving some task so that children could earn extra pocket money. Furthermore, for schools, teachers should incorporate life skills into their curriculum for final years students.
To sum up, parents and teachers played crucial role in young people development to managing financial, these could be solved by taking responsibility to give the right skills for them.
For the past few years, most
young
people
have proved to have an inadequate knowledge of how to manage their personal finances after they finished their education. This is due to lack of life experience and limited education that could
be solved
in several ways.
Living with their
parents
for free have been one of the main reasons of why they lack of experience.
As a result
,
young
people
would not worry about the value of
money
on how to earn and to save their
money
.
Moreover
,
schools
curriculum does not include personal financial management, whereas
schools
are more focused on classic subjects,
thus
students might
only
learn calculating
money
,
however
, does not know how to manage them.
Therefore
, both teachers and
parents
are failing to prepare
young
people
for real world.
To solve
young
people
inadequate ability to manage personal finances,
schools
and
parents
have a significant
roles
. For
parents
, when children are
young
or already exposed to
money
, they should have
teach
them on how
money
is earned
, budgeted, and saved. It could
be done
by giving limited pocket
money
so
that
young
children could learn to budget their
own
money
and giving
some
task
so
that children could earn extra pocket
money
.
Furthermore
, for
schools
, teachers should incorporate life
skills
into their curriculum for final years students.
To sum up,
parents
and teachers played crucial role in
young
people
development to managing financial, these could
be solved
by taking responsibility to
give the right
skills
for them.