A Smart way to Start

Book 1: A Smart Way To Start teaches children about earning money and equal pay. For all the children’s life goals, there are two things they will need: some money to start and a smart plan indeed. Children learn how money needs to be earned chore by chore, and how there is no reason whatsoever for a girl to be paid less than a boy for the exact same chore, done equally well.

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£12.50

LIFE SKILLS your child will learn:
✓ Good work ethics ✓ To value resources ✓ Negotiation skills

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A SMART WAY TO SAVE

Book 2: A Smart Way To Save encourages children to save their pennies and to enjoy math, using addition and multiplication to calculate how much money is in their piggy bank. It goes on to explain how money in a piggy bank cannot grow because it has nowhere to go. In order to grow, the pennies need to be put on a savings account. The book explains in very simple terms that interest is what makes money grow over the years.

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£12.50

LIFE SKILLS your child will learn:
✓ Patience ✓ Resilience ✓ Self-Control

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A SMART WAY TO SPEND

Book 3: A Smart Way to Spend teaches children to ponder and plan wisely every spending choice. It is easy to get carried away and spend all one’s pocket money on things that might not be necessary or that might be poor quality and end up in the bin. Often it is wiser to wait, save a bit more, and purchase something of higher quality that will last. At the end of the story, discover the link to a SECRET CHAPTER on digital money…

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£12.50

LIFE SKILLS your child will learn:
✓ Planning ✓ Strategy ✓ Prioritisation

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A SMART WAY TO SPEND Digital Money

eBook 3 Secret Chapter: A Smart Way to Spend Digital Money teaches children that you need to be very careful when spending digital money, because with a swipe or a tap it is spent and it’s gone! It also explains in a simple way why it is better to earn and then spend, rather than end up with debt. The same way you cannot touch digital money, you cannot touch this book ether. It is DIGITAL ONLY.

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£5.00

LIFE SKILLS your child will learn:
✓ Planning ✓ Strategy ✓ Prioritisation

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A SMART CHOICE TO MAKE

Book 4: A Smart Choice To Make teaches children about sustainability and impact. By spending the pennies they earned and saved, children are giving money to firms/brands who make the things they buy. Some firms do better than others in caring for the environment when they produce things. If children had their say, would they give money to firms that don’t care or rather to firms that do care for the planet? This book teaches children that they do have a voice because they can make choices that matter with their money.

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£12.50

LIFE SKILLS your child will learn:
✓ Compassion ✓ Impact ✓ Responsibility

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A SMART WAY TO START DOING GOOD

Book 5: A Smart Way to Start Doing Good teaches children why their Money Choices matter so much. There are 17 problems in our world; that we are trying to solve: the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Your child will learn that with every daily money choice, we can do good things for other people and for the planet.

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£12.50

LIFE SKILLS your child will learn:
✓ Compassion ✓ Impact ✓ Responsibility

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ONLINE COURSE

4 Money Habits

What’s inside?

4 MONEY HABITS is an introductory online course that will show you how to kick-off your Financial Parenting so you can start Actively Shaping Your Kids’ Financial Future today.It will take you 5 days, 15 minutes a day to complete.

Become your child's best Money Role Model
Teach your Child Smart Earning
Teach your child Smart Saving
Teach your child Smart Spending
Teach your child how to make Smart Money Choices

Bonus pack

Actionable Bonuses

What’s inside?

Our Financial Parenting Bonus Pack will give you all essential tools you need to start your Financial Parenting journey.

Money Messages Guide
Money Manifesto
Smart Earning Plan
Smart Saving Plan
Smart Spending Plan
Smart Choices Plan

Meet the founder

dr. Mara Harvey

Welcome Parents, I'm Mara, I'm the founder of Smart Way to Start.
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In my 25 years working as a senior leader in finance, including being a CEO of a Swiss Private bank, I have witnessed first-hand the difficult life situations that young adults find themselves in because no one took responsibility to teach them basic Money Skills at an early age.

In my view, teaching essential Money Skills to children is the responsibility of every parent but many parents delay or avoid having important money conversations with their children until it is too late. This is why I made it my mission to make Financial Parenting easy and accessible, so parents worldwide can empower their children to grow up Financially Literate with a good understanding of how their daily Money Choices impact our future and the world.

Start your Financial Parenting Journey with me and learn about 4 Money Skills that you must teach your children to secure their financial future:

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