From Here to Financial Happiness

Day Twenty Home Schooling

What did you learn about money from your parents? These lessons might have been things they tried to teach you or things you learned by observing their behavior and listening to their conversations. Use the space below to write down the childhood lessons that come to mind. They might relate to spending, borrowing, saving, investing, insurance, cars, real estate, or perhaps some other money‐related topic.

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Look at what you just wrote. Which of these beliefs do you now call your own, and which have you cast aside?

Kept	Discarded

Our children are more likely to follow our financial example than our financial advice.