Developing Healthy Financial Habits
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| Elena |
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| Radley |
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| Warren |
Why I started the $ecret Millionaires Club
by Warren Buffett
We created the Secret Millionaires Club to help kids develop
healthy habits, and provide a fun way for kids to learn about the “business of
life.” I thought the idea of using the power of cartoon characters to carry a
message was a good one, as is teaching financial lessons at an age when it can
really help kids.
We’ve taken those same lessons from the television series,
and created toys and books and games, providing other ways to make it fun for kids
to learn about business. And three years ago, we created a program that
encouraged kids to use what they learn from Secret Millionaires Club to create their own businesses.
The Grow Your Own
Business Challenge is a national competition available in thousands of
schools and youth organizations across the country. The competition offers an
educational website and downloadable materials to help kids develop their
ideas. Thousands of kids enter the competition every year.
The finalists come to see me in Omaha and present their
business plans. It’s a lot of fun for the kids, their teachers, parents and
most of all for me! Each year, I am amazed by the ideas these kids come up
with. For those who are pessimistic about the current state of affairs in this
country, they need only spend a few hours with these terrific kids to see that
the best days of this country are before us. The program is proof that at a
very early age kids not only understand financial matters, they come up with
some pretty extraordinary ideas themselves, and have a lot of fun doing it.
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From the website:
ABOUT THE
SECRET MILLIONAIRES CLUB
The Secret
Millionaires Club is an animated series that features Warren Buffett as a
mentor to a group of entrepreneurial kids whose adventures lead them to
encounter financial and business problems to solve. The program teaches the
basic of good financial decision making and some of the basic lessons of
starting a business. The animated series has 26 online short webisodes and TV
specials featured on the HUB cable network. The animated series is created by A
Squared Entertainment. Watch Webisodes In 2011/2012, the animated series
branched out into a sponsored educational program, "Learn & Earn"
with in-school materials for teachers, at home activities for families and
afterschool activities for youth organizations. The program includes an annual
national competition that challenges kids to come up with their own business
ideas. The winners and finalists of the first annual competition shared their
business ideas with Mr. Buffett in Omaha. -
See more at:
http://www.smckids.com/about.php#sthash.lnvkrf9F.dpuf
More from the website, sample episodes
include location, reputation, etc.,
Webisode 26: Cancel My Reputation Build a Good Reputation
See more at:
http://www.smckids.com/#sthash.79OLBmg7.dpuf
By the way, the Secret Millionaires Club has curriculum guides coordiated with 4-H, Junior Achievement and Girls, Inc. Check out all that is available at the smckids website.
Ret. 3-3-14
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