Raise Money-Smart Teens: A Parent's Playbook for Peaceful Money Talks

John W Clark is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER (CFP) with more than fifteen years of experience advising families, and a father of three. He spent most of his career watching the same scenes repeat in client kitchens: smart, loving parents locked in silent or shouting matches with teenagers over money, not because the parents were careless, but because no one had ever taught them how to talk about it. He left private practice to focus on financial literacy, developing workshops and classroom programs that have reached thousands of middle and high school students. His writing on family money has appeared in national parenting and personal finance publications, and he writes a weekly newsletter on raising money-smart kids. He grew up in a home where money was never discussed, and this book is, in part, an answer to the silence he grew up with. John lives in the Midwest with his wife and three teenagers, where the dinner table conversation is occasionally about money and usually about everything else. This is his first book.