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Financial education for children: why money lessons need to start early

Teaching children about money: what I wish I’d learned sooner

Financial education for children: why money lessons need to start early

I was in my late twenties before I understood what an overdraft actually cost me.

Not in a vague "it's bad to be overdrawn" way. But actually understood it: the daily charges, the interest, the way it quietly erodes your account while you're busy just trying to get through the month.

Nobody had ever...