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In this sixth lesson in the Smart Consumer Skills Guide for Brilliant Kids series we ask you to explore debt and how good you really are with debt. In the last lesson, we gave 5 questions to ask yourself when spending. Debt is extremely important to understand and master. It can help in providing you [...]
July 9th, 2008 | Posted in Debt, Education, Entrepreneurship, Financial Skills, How to's | No Comments
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 [...]
June 27th, 2008 | Posted in Financial Skills, How to's, Parents, Posts, Smart Consumers | No Comments
In this fourth lesson in the Smart Consumer Skills Guide for Brilliant Kids series we ask you to explore this question and make an honest judgement. In the last lesson, you learnt about how companies persuade you to buy, here will look at you and your habits.
Are you Good With Money?
When you ask people this [...]
June 25th, 2008 | Posted in Financial Skills, How to's, Parents, Posts, Smart Consumers | No Comments
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.
If you can understand this, you will [...]
June 24th, 2008 | Posted in Financial Skills, How to's, Parents, Smart Consumers | No Comments
This is the second lesson in the Smart Consumer Skills Guide for Brilliant Kids series. In the last lesson we talked about a businesses job is to make money from you.
Business is not there to help and assist with daily life - that is your job - they merely provide you the products, tools and [...]
June 19th, 2008 | Posted in Financial Skills, How to's, Parents, Smart Consumers | No Comments
Teaching kids about money at an early age is the smart thing to do. They will grow up already familiar with how money works and be smart with money. Usually they are far more interested in the real world - games, videos, toys, play…
The real challenge is to make your children so savvy with money [...]
June 12th, 2008 | Posted in Financial Skills, How to's, Parents, Smart Consumers | No Comments
At MyBrilliantKidz, we believe that all our children are Brilliant Kids in the making - it is up to us parents to bring this out. Whilst we may think about this as primarily being linked with education, we should not forget the “real world” skills and attributes that are needed to get the best out [...]
June 11th, 2008 | Posted in Entrepreneurship, Financial Skills, How to's, Smart Consumers | No Comments
After the Test
You and your child can learn a great deal from reviewing a graded exam paper. Reviewing will show him or her where they had difficulty and after some analysis, why. This is especially important for classes in which the material builds from one section to the next, as in math. Students who have [...]
June 9th, 2008 | Posted in Education, How to's, Parents, Succeed in School, learning, test-taking | No Comments
Continuing this series of practical articles to help you and your children - Helping your Child Succeed in School, and test taking, in this article we discuss how we can work with our children in helping them prepare for exams, and getting through school.
Kids are intelligent enough to understand comprehend the world around them. They [...]
June 6th, 2008 | Posted in Education, How to's, Parents, Posts, Succeed in School, learning, test-taking | No Comments
This is the next series of practical articles to help you and your children - Helping your Child Succeed in School, and test taking. If you understand the importance of tests and results, and how to use them to nurture confidence and assurance in your children, it will go a long way to reinforcing the [...]
June 5th, 2008 | Posted in Education, How to's, Parents, Succeed in School, learning, test-taking | No Comments