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In person in Frisco, Texas · ages 13–17
Money Moves: Financial Literacy & Investing
Build wealth-building habits before bad habits build themselves.
Inside the course
- Budgeting, saving, and managing your first dollars
- How compound interest builds (or destroys) wealth
- Stocks, index funds, and the basics of investing
- Understanding credit, debt, and responsible borrowing
- Spotting financial scams and protecting your money
What this course is
Most schools teach calculus before they teach a paycheck. This course fixes that. Teens learn how money actually works in the real world — how to budget, save, invest, and avoid the financial traps that quietly drain decades of opportunity from most adults.
Weekly 90-minute sessions, hands-on budgeting and investing simulations.
Why it matters
Compound interest works just as ruthlessly on debt as it does on wealth. Teens who learn to use money strategically gain a head start that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars over their lifetime.
What your teen learns
- Budgeting, saving, and managing your first dollars with confidence
- How compound interest builds (or destroys) wealth over time
- The basics of stocks, index funds, and long-term investing
- Understanding credit, debt, and responsible borrowing
- Spotting financial scams, predatory loans, and money traps
Where they will use it
- Making a first paycheck go further than most adults' do
- Opening and using a checking, savings, or brokerage account wisely
- Saying no to bad debt and yes to smart leverage
- Building a head start on long-term investing as a teenager
- Becoming the friend everyone asks for money advice
Skills they walk away with
The competencies this course is built to produce.
- Budgeting
- Investing fundamentals
- Credit literacy
- Financial decision-making
- Scam awareness
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Tell us about your teen and an admissions director calls you back within one business day — with the cohort's evening, the Frisco, Texas address, who teaches the class, and an honest read on whether it suits your teenager.
- No payment on this form, and no card details asked for
- A real person calls, usually the same day
- If the class is wrong for your teen, we will tell you
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Call (618) 573-5078- Email contact@instituteoflifeskills.com
- Classes In person in Frisco, Texas