- Budgeting
- Cash Management
- Consumer and Mortgage Loans
- Debt and Debt Reduction
- Time Value of Money 1: Present and Future Value
- Time Value of Money 2: Inflation, Real Returns, Annuities, and Amortized Loans
- Insurance 1: Basics
- Insurance 2: Life Insurance
- Insurance 3: Health, Long-term Care, and Disability Insurance
- Insurance 4: Auto, Homeowners, and Liability Insurance
- The Home Decision
- The Auto Decision
- Family 1: Money and Marriage
- Family 2: Teaching Children Financial Responsibility
- Family 3: Financing Children’s Education and Missions
- Investments A: Key Lessons of Investing
- Investments B: Key Lessons of Investing
5. Teaching Married Children
Teaching married children is the most challenging of all. Perhaps the best counsel is from D&C 121: 41 which states:
No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood (or by virtue of money), only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned; By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile—
From a gospel perspective:
- Teach by example, and
- Be a good example of a wise financial steward that has his/her priorities in order.
Things to do and teach with this age group:
- Realize that retirement planning comes first: helping children with money problems comes second
- Minimize discussions of what children and grandchildren will inherit or receive as gifts
- Minimize gifts of cash to adult children as part of a negotiation strategy
- Help adult children recognize when they need financial help and to accept it graciously
- Stay out of your adult children’s family matters, and
- Assure your children that they will not receive any inheritance until they have established a mature, disciplined, and adult lifestyle and profession.