Every parent dreams of their child being brilliant, of being just that one step better then they are and keep their family and community progressing upwards to allow them to feel proud parents.
The reality is with the fast speed of living in the modern world – the rat race, that dream is probably achieved by less than 2% of the population.
There is a common perception that exists amongst the majority of parents – that you need either a lot of time to devote to your children or that you need to be wealthy enough to afford and essentially ‘outsource’ this task. Being in the rat race makes you focus on the two essential currencies in this race – time and money – trading your time (knowledge and skills) to earn the money to keep a roof over your head !
We spent a lot of time in our earlier years to acquire knowledge and skills to allow us to better trade our time in the future and earn a better rate.
Being conditioned in this way affects the way we think our children should be too. If a child could be made to rise above this with some special quality or gift, then perhaps they can get out of this rat race.
Multiplication tables are one of those things which everyone has to learn. multiplication tables are traditionally things that have been learnt a certain way over the years. People know they can learn their Multiplication Times Tables, but these are taught to us in a rote fashion, and to get them right takes a long time and a lot of effort.
In the last lesson we asked how good you really are with your money, and looked at the 5 components you need to understand to be good you’re your money. In this fifth lesson in the Smart Consumer Skills Guide for Brilliant Kids series we look at what you need to be doing to helping curb that impulse buying resulting from good and clever marketing.
This is the third lesson in the Smart Consumer Skills Guide for Brilliant Kids series. In the last lesson we talked about how to turn the tables on companies who like to make money from you. In this lesson we will talk about how companies persuade you to buy.