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Lesson 5 – What You Should Do Before Spending?

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 [...]

Lesson 4 – How Good Are You With Your Money?

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 [...]

Lesson 3 – How companies persuade you to buy

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 [...]

Lesson 2 – Turn The Table on Companies Who Like to Make Money

 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 [...]

Lesson 1 - A company’s job is to make money from you

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 [...]

Helping Your Child with Test-Taking part 4

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 [...]

Helping Your Child with Test-Taking part 3

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 [...]

Helping Your Child with Test-Taking part 2

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 [...]

Re-programming Series - Your daily affirmations - part 4

The previous self talk mini series article in the my brilliant kidz re-programming series discussed how to implement the personalised self talk program. This is part 4 of the self talk mini series and discusses how a self talk program can apply to our kids.
 
Implementing a Self Talk program for children
There are a number of [...]

Re-programming Series - Your daily affirmations - part 3

The previous self talk mini series article in the my brilliant kidz re-programming series discussed how to create a personal self talk list, using an example. This is part 3 of the self talk mini series and discusses how now use this. This will complete the program.
How to implement the Self Talk program
You now [...]