You're in a Toys "R" Us with fifteen minutes to get a birthday gift. Your twelve-year-old son insists he must have a $50 Nintendo game. However, he just bought one two days ago with his allowance. What will you do? Ignore him?
Reason with him? Scream and stomp your feet as he does?
This moment became an epiphany for Sarah Williamson, author of Play The Real-Life Money Game With Your Teen.
Sarah is a Certified Public Accountant who received her bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and worked for Ernst and Young. With twenty years in the accounting and financial consulting field, she felt it was time to share some of this expertise with families. Michael, her budding teen entrepreneur, provided the training ground for a teaching system that forms the core of this book. Designed as operating instructions for parents, Play The Real-Life Money Game With Your Teen shares her method for teaching teens financial independence. Sarah teaches courses designed to help parents foster financial literacy in their teens.
Sarah Williamson is licensed in the State of Washington as a CPA.
"There is so much we assume that young people will "just know"—and we are so wrong. This well-written, user-friendly, interactive book is a great service to parents. Helping your child understand the logic and maintenance of money is critically important and I commend the author on doing such a great job of making this information easy, fun, and extremely thorough."
—Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Author, "Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Children about Sex and Character"
