Biz Kid$

This show teaches kids about financial literacy...and adults, too. 😉

Financial education is such a lacking aspect in common sense these days, and the format of this show really helps provide basic knowledge and ideas for young people who want to be more knowledgeable about finances.

Understandably, this is targeted more towards a young audience but the information and the way it's presented are spot on.

Our preteens are highly engaged by this show. We started watching it with them as part of building their financial capabilities.

I was channel flipping today when I came across this corporate propaganda - aimed at kids and on public television! It depicted young kids - preteeens - taking out business loans, and encouraged other kids to do the same thing! Their interest rates were terrible at that! The last thing we need to do is raise ANOTHER generation of debtors. Luckily, I think most parents today realize this is a bad idea, given their own economic problems and the economic crisis in general. But when I, and probably parents, turn on PBS, I think there is going to be some level of neutrality and sound educational material for children. The kind of stuff you can let your kids watch without having to explain to them that the information they're being fed is biased and shouldn't be taken at face value. Sadly, that seems to not be the case. It's fine to teach people to manage their money, pay back their loans (IF they do decide to take them out - we need to stop assuming that everyone should or has to take them out), build their credit (although our reliance on credit scores also encourages a debt culture), and so on, when they're old enough to make these decisions based on their own needs and assets. We shouldn't be normalizing debt to young kids!

We are such big fans of Biz Kid$ and how they share real-life stories of young entrepreneurs to teach kids about financial responsibility!