Episode Details

Teaching kids about money starts earlier than most parents think, and Jessica Moorhouse, personal finance author and educator, makes the case that silence is already a lesson. Kids are watching what parents do with money whether the conversation happens or not, and the habits they absorb early tend to follow them into adulthood. The question isn't whether to talk about it. It's whether to be intentional about what they're picking up.

Moorhouse walks through how to handle the salary question when kids ask, why connecting a dream house or a luxury car to actual monthly payments lands differently than a lecture, and how needs versus wants becomes the foundation everything else builds on. She also flags sports betting as a growing and deliberately marketed threat to young people that parents aren't having nearly enough conversations about.

The honest starting point for any parent who didn't get these conversations growing up and is figuring out how to do it differently.

Topics: teaching kids about money, children and financial literacy, money habits, needs vs wants, sports betting youth

GUEST: Jessica Moorhouse | jessicamoorhouse.com

Originally aired on 2026-06-15