Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now,

while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. My name is Joshua Sheets,

I'm your host. Today, we continue our series on how to invest in your children when they are

young. This one's going to be not quite very young. It's more going to be young,

and I will explain why. But today, I want to encourage you that you can help your children to

transform their thinking skills, their speaking skills, their communication skills broadly,

their leadership skills, their impact in the world, et cetera, by doing one simple thing,

which is encouraging and requiring your children to write. Now, let's set very quickly a little

bit of context for this show or for this series. We're doing this series here at the show called

how to invest in your children when they are young. And this is a series that is birthed out of

my years-long frustration with people going quick to save money from my kids' college as their

primary, in many cases, only way of thinking about how to invest in their children. And as a long

time frustrated financial planner, I've always believed that you can get a better return on your

investments by investing directly into your children rather than putting money and mutual funds

to save for college. Not that one is right and one is wrong, they're both fine, and I think most

parents can do both. But if you had to choose between tossing your kids into some industrial

government school somewhere and just never talking to them about their education again, but saving

for college versus talking with them and working on some of the techniques and the things that I'm

sharing with you, I think you're better off with what I'm talking about versus the other stuff.

Because if you get this stuff right, you don't have any need to save for college because your

child may not need college, your child will get paid to go to college. All the doors will open up.

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