Press Release - Feb. 5, 2011

How To Teach Our Kids About Money
So they actually recall the information and use it later!

Santa Barbara, CA – People everywhere are talking about the economy. Most of the talk is negative but Creative Wealth continually turns out teachers who empower our youth to not make the same financial mistakes many of their parents made.

Teachers, bankers and financial advisors across the nation are developing a passion to teach kids the financial basics they as adults. But in order for this information to stick, financial education must be experiential and relevant. It normally isn't.

The Camp Millionaire Train-the-Trainer, March 20-24 in Santa Barbara, shows financial education promoters how easy it is to turn those boring money lectures into fun, memorable, activity lessons that produce adults who manage their money better than their many of their parents have.

"We must revolutionize our nation's financial literacy programs or we're going to continue raising adults who haven't a clue how to manage, or invest, their money," says Elisabeth Donati, a nationally-recognized expert at teaching basic financial principles to our youth. Donati, creator of Camp Millionaire and The Money Game, has been teaching kids and teens about money since 2002, after teaching herself about money in her 30's.

"Money lessons have to be relevant and activity-oriented if you want kids to remember the information," says Elisabeth, "otherwise you might as well be talking to a wall." Donati explains, "By using 'active learning techniques (also called Accelerated Learning),' kids learn about money by experiencing money.

Donati suggests these simple techniques to make financial lesson plans memorable:

Enroll your students in the lesson by asking questions to get them interested in the subject matter. They need to know, "What's in this for me?" Tell them.

Ask Don't Tell. Have a conversation with your students by asking them plenty of questions. Involve them instead of telling them what to do with their money.

Turn every lesson into an activity. Create budgets. Transform a boring lecture on debt into a real-life simulation that has kids using credit cards and paying the bank back with interest from money they earn by 'working' for you.

Accelerated learning techniques turn every money lesson into a lesson that shapes a life. Let students experience the lessons and they'll remember them forever.

Creative Wealth Intl., LLC is hosting several financial Train-the-Trainer workshops in 2011. Discount rates available for teachers and nonprofit.

For more information, visit www.CampMillionaire.com/TrainTheTrainer.php or call 805-957-1024. For more information about Elisabeth, visit www.ElisabethDonati.com.