Teach a child about money by seven, and the data says it echoes at sixty
Children form money habits by the age of seven — and fifteen years of anonymised data from GoHenry, shared with the UK Treasury and analysed with the University of Manchester and the University of St Andrews, puts numbers on what follows. Children taught about money were 46 percent more likely to start a business, and those taught about investing carried an estimated £320,000 (about $435,000) more in savings and investments by age 60. Founder Louise Hill campaigned to keep financial education practical rather than purely theoretical; from September 2028 it becomes a mandatory part of the citizenship curriculum in England's schools.
The upbeat factora few early lessons with pocket money can compound, measurably, across an entire lifetime.
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