If you leave your children one thing, make it this | Robert Gardner | TEDxWandsworth
Robert Gardner |
TEDxWandsworth
• November 2017
Most parents excel when it comes to teaching safety and good manners, but with money, few know where to start. In this talk, Robert takes us through a gamification experience aimed at children to equip them with the essentials of earning money, keeping it, and watching it grow over time. As they learn good and bad things to do with their money, they experience a real feeling for risk and reward, as well as a few surprises that mirror the real world. With research showing that children copy their parents’ approach to finances, isn’t it time that financial education started much earlier in life? Robert Gardner is an independent investment consultant and prominent leader in the pensions industry. He has founded various organisations and an online community to help people and young children to better understand the impact of their financial decisions on their future.
His passion for helping future generations save for a better financial future lead to the launch of RedSTART in 2012 - a charity that provides financial education and an entrepreneurship programme to young people. In 2016, RedSTART was presented with the Editor's Choice Award at the Financial News Pensions Awards.
In 2016, Robert wrote 'Save Your Acorns', a book aimed at four-to-six-year-olds to help them learn about saving, investing, and sharing. He also co-founded Mallowstreet, an online community for the pensions industry, which works to solve the pensions and savings crisis through education and collaboration.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx