The Home School of Abundance: Powerful Effective Lessons You should Teach your Child about Money

Teresa Ike

Description

Does poverty or wealth reside in the DNA? Why do the rich perpetuate their wealth and poor people seem to perpetuate their financial struggles?

The Home School of Abundance expresses the power of the home in laying the right foundation for financial success.

If we understand that what happens to an individual can often be traced back to early childhood influences, we must explore the roots of financial struggles. Parents and other significant others owe a responsibility to be deliberate in the process of laying that healthy blue print on which future financial experiences can be built on.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• Vie de famille
• Parentalité et Éducation des Enfants
• développement personnel
• Personal Growth
• Self-help
• Parentalité
• Parentalité
• Parentalité

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 19 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456632021
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Home School of Abundance: Powerful Effective Lessons You should Teach your Child about Money
 
By Teresa Ike
Copyright 2018 Teresa Ike,
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Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-3202-1
 
 
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
The truth about abundance
CHAPTER 2
How children learn in the home
CHAPTER 3
How wealth or poverty is perpetuated in families
CHAPTER 4
Myths about money
Myth #1: Money is evil
Myth #2: Hard work equals money
Myth #3: The economy is to blame
Myth #4: You need a lot of money to enjoy life
CHAPTER 5
Money lessons for parents
Lesson #1: Money is important
Lesson #2: Practice affirmations to uproot negative beliefs and attitudes
Lesson #3: Prayer and wishful thinking alone won’t bring in more money
Lesson #4: Sometimes you need to spend money to make more money
Lesson #5: Save and invest the money you earn
Lesson #6: The importance of guiding children toward their natural inclinations and talents
CHAPTER 6
17 money lessons parents should teach their children
Lesson #1: There’s more than enough to go around
Lesson #2: Giving joyfully
Lesson #3: Receiving gracefully and thankfully what comes to you
Lesson #4: Giving your children positive messages and sharing your plans with them
Lesson #5: Earning an allowance
Lesson #6: Managing money
Lesson #7: Spending wisely
Lesson #8: Helping children discover their special talents
Lesson #9: Exposing your children to a wide range of experiences and educational materials
Lesson #10: Setting goals
Lesson #11: Keeping dreams alive
Lesson #12: Teaching children to take risks
Lesson #13: It’s OK to fail
Lesson #14: How to deal with the word no
Lesson #15: The option of self-employment
Lesson #16: Creating a powerful network
CHAPTER 7
Putting it all together
CHAPTER 8
Activities and practices
 
INTRODUCTION
Do you feel like you have been struggling financially and you don’t know what else to do? Do you feel like all your best intentions and efforts at becoming financially free are not yielding visible fruits? Do you see yourself stressed as a parent, just as your parents were before you? The cliché “like father like son” is very true in more ways than we realize. I bet you remember walking into the room as a child and having someone exclaim, “You must be so-and-so’s child!’
A couple of months ago I drove into a gas station. The young lady who stepped up to serve me took one look at my 11-year-old son in the back seat and gasped, “I know this boy’s father. He buys fuel here.” That’s right. My husband has bought gas at this station for years, but has never been there with any of our children. The minute I pulled up and she took a look at our son, she connected the two of them because the young boy has an uncanny resemblance to his father.
Yes, your genetics often show in your physical appearance, but this book will reveal something you perhaps have never been told before; what you inherit from your parents also shows in your finances!
This book will explain that it is not only in the looks department that we resemble our parents. We inherit patterns, mannerisms, beliefs, and attitudes, and these may be positive or negative. Some of the most vital attributes we inherit from our parents are the beliefs they lived by. If you look at your life right this minute, you will see certain similarities to the picture you grew up with as a child. For instance, perhaps you are constantly struggling to make ends meet. Does that seem familiar?
Do you find yourself telling your kids, “We can’t afford such-and-such for your birthday”? Do you remember hearing something similar from your own parents? It may have been a toy you desperately wanted. New shoes for school, a trip to a fun place. Whatever it was, your parents said they couldn’t afford it. If you find yourself saying the same things to your kids today, here’s the bad news: your kids will be saying the same thing to their kids in 20 years’ time. Unless...
A lot of the functions of our lives are subconscious. We are wired at the deepest level to act like an automaton. That makes sense. Think about it. The most vital physiological functions of your body are automated and out of your control: the beating of your heart, the flow of blood through the arteries and veins, the digestive functions, breathing, the function of your nervous system. These activities go on irrespective of your mood. Whether you are broke or flush with cash, your heart beats. Whether you are in love or heartbroken, your heart beats. Whether you are angry or happily excited, your heart beats. While sleeping, working, running, your heart beats. Unless something drastic happens to interrupt that automation, your heart continues its function with no regard to the economy, scandals, loss of spirituality, conspiracy theories, wars, famines, successes, and failures.
In the exact same way, the habits, beliefs, and attitudes about wealth that have been programmed into our subconscious minds cause us to function in certain predetermined ways, and once programmed in, the course is set and the individual will march on, looking neither left nor right, in the direction they have been turned toward—just as the heart does not stop beating because the stock market crashes (OK, maybe a few hearts will!).
When a child is born, he or she is more or less a blank sheet. God will do His part to automate all the necessary physiological, biological, and immunological functions the individual will need to live as a human. But the social functions, beliefs, and habits are left to be molded by the environment. The environment is responsible for behaviors and attitudes and mental models. The environment is a school. The home is the first environment. The home is the first school.
It is clear, then, how imperative it is that this first school imprint only the best of habits and attitudes onto the mind of a child in every area, including finances and wealth creation.
“Raise up a child in the way he should go and when he grows up, he will not depart from it.” These life-giving words from the book of Proverbs should actually strike a holy fear into your heart, because while it means that any child who has been raised in a godly manner will grow up with the best of what pertains to godliness, it also means that any child raised to think in terms of lack, limitation, abuse, and poverty will not depart from it as an adult. It makes sense, then, to examine the relationship between you and money and the conversations that went on in your home as a child.
Virgil said, “As a twig is bent, so it lies.” The purpose of this book is to raise the awareness in parents that every single word you speak can either be a nail in the coffin of financial independence for your child, or a key to the door of abundance. The miracle is that it costs just the same effort to choose one rather than the other. In this book you will learn to see a relationship between your past, your present, and your future.
It is often said that we should forget the past. That’s wise counsel, but taking stock of the past has its blessings. While the present is a direct result of the past, past thinking, past beliefs, past habits, the present can be adjusted so that future outcomes, based on today, will be outstanding and amazing. This book is not intended to apportion blame to your parents. They only passed on to you what they got from their parents. The challenge is to break free from what they considered as truth, determine for yourself what the truth is, pass on only those principles that are actually the truth to your children, and set yourself and your kids free from the vicious grip of poverty and lack.
You can begin to live an abundant life free from a limiting mindset and create for yourself and your family an abundant life beyond your wildest imagination. Then and only then will you understand that what rich parents leave for their children is not just money but the habits, beliefs, work ethics, and networks necessary to perpetuate wealth creation and financial abundance.