Tran Harry – The Economy Needs A Fix

So you think high school kids aren’t capable of understanding the value of money? Is that why you choose to let it go a little longer, you figure you should wait until after they got a job or after you cosign their credit card before speaking and teaching them sound financial advice. Well I think this should be interesting than because 15 year old Carl O’Cab is one example that will make you think twice about waiting so long to teach sound finance. Carl has a nice website blog going for himself here at Youngest Blogger and here he has a list of blogs owned by teens and kids all under the age of 18.

While I can’t say for a fact each kid has a great system going for themselves and won’t have to get a job to fund their retirement in the future I believe that they have a head start in the world because they have been pre-exposed to the real world, before their peers have. And by real world we know when you create a blog you expose yourself to risk, risk it will fail and how to create a great blog experience so people will come and it won’t fail, as well as exposure to criticism, imagine all those comments that you don’t want to see.

While the rest of the world is sitting in class being praised for learning their geometry even when they get the answers wrong, we all go too easy on them. This has possibly led to the deterioration of our education system, college kids who have parents funding their tuition so they can party all night and sleep all day. Only to go to work for us, and our country with little more than the knowledge of a 12th grader. If we want to catch up to other countries as an intelligent country rather than a lazy one, we need to start encouraging our kids early on to try and succeed and to put themselves out their to succeed and fend of critics.

I definitely recommend heading over there and seeing what some of the kids are doing.