Teach kids financial skills early, 草榴社区 instructor says
Kids should start learning about personal finance at an early age, especially the difference between needs and wants, so that by the time they're adults they are financially literate and able to make smart choices.
That's the message Pam Whalley, director of the Center of Economic and Financial Education at Western Washington University, tries to spread around the state through teacher trainings and parent guides.
"If you do nothing else with your child than that, you've done more than most people," she said about instilling the idea of needs vs. wants.