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By our community, for our kids
Real experiences for every grade, trusted resources, free classes by volunteers, and money guidance — shared by our Indian community.
The money curriculum nobody gets at school. Start where your child is; each lesson is 20 minutes with a do-together activity. Ticks are saved on this device.
Lesson 1 · What money isAges 4–6
A coin scavenger hunt and the trade game — money is what we swap for things, and it runs out.
Lesson 2 · Spend · Save · Share jarsAges 5–8
Three jars on the counter, allowance split every Sunday. The habit that outlives every app.
Lesson 3 · Smart spendingAges 8–10
Take them grocery shopping with $20 and a list. Unit prices, needs vs wants, and living with the choice.
Lesson 4 · First bank accountAges 10–12
Open a kids' savings account together; read the statement monthly. Interest is the plot twist.
Lesson 5 · Compounding — see money growAges 11–14
The 'See your money grow' calculator below: $20/month, 7%, thirty years. Let them move the sliders and gasp.
Lesson 6 · First job, first RothAges 15–18
W-2 basics, and the custodial Roth IRA: teen income in, decades of tax-free growth out.
Money you save doesn't just sit there — it can grow itself. Slide the numbers and watch.
Where it grows
~7% is the stock market's long-run average. Real markets go up AND down — this is a teaching estimate, not a promise.
In 15 yearsyou'd have
$15,848
About 43% of that is free growth — money your money made while you slept. That's enough for a solid used first car 🚗
Simplified for learning: assumes the same amount every month and a steady average return, compounded monthly. Real life wiggles — the lesson is that time + steady saving does the heavy lifting.
What families tried, and what a year later looked like.
Tried the jars, the chores rate card, a teen Roth? Two honest paragraphs help the next ten families.
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