Invest To Retire

Dynamic Interview With Financial Expert Candi Hinton Sparks

Can I Have Some Money

Candi Sparks is a Brooklyn-based mom and author of the children’s book series Can I Have Some Money? She also has a website of the same name, www.can-i-have-some-money.com. Candi provides Can I Have Some Money? workshops and programs dedicated to teaching kids how to make, save and accumulate money in a very simplistic way.

Candi calls herself a “Mom-preneur” and cites her own two children as her biggest motivation to keep educating parents and their kids about money. Her books show the story through a child’s eyes, so the young reader can easily relate to the lessons about money. It’s through this method that Candi interweaves both topics so that the language of money becomes as easy to understand as the English language.
Candi’s groundbreaking workshop program takes children as young as four years old through the basics of what money means, how it is earned, and the consequences of frivolous spending. Kids aren’t the only ones who learn; parents get a better understanding of why their children are having tantrums in the grocery store, and why their teenagers think money is a right, not a privilege. The answers might surprise you, so don’t miss Candi’s compelling interview with Invest to Retire.

Some of the topics Candi covers are:
·    Why she’s so passionate about teaching kids the value of money
·    Why it’s so important for parents to educate and prepare their children financially
·    How kids learn to equate money with self-worth, and how to reverse the damage
·    A touching story of one of her youngest workshop attendees, and how he taught his mom to say “no”

Candi focuses on teaching kids the difference between “want” and “need”, and helps identify and halt impulse spending. Most people know that children are bombarded by the media in an attempt to sell anything and everything, and children are susceptible to those damaging messages. But did you know that kids learn most of their money lessons from their parents? Even if the parents aren’t talking directly to their children about finances, their youngsters are still absorbing the environmental residue of money woes. This can be more emotionally detrimental to kids than anything they might see on TV or in a movie. Listen to Candi’s interview now to find out how to raise your children free of those unnecessary burdens.

Candi’s interview can be heard here