How to Give Your Child a Financial Head Start

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Acorns

Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps individuals and families save, invest, and grow money automatically through simple, everyday habits.

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Why it worked

The video effectively uses a relatable "how-to" format combined with a tangible, aspirational outcome (significant savings for a child). By demonstrating a simple, automated process ($25/week) and showcasing the impressive projected growth, it taps into the desire for financial security and future planning, making the concept of investing accessible and motivating.

Summary

The creator explains how they are giving their child a financial head start by using the Acorns app to invest $25 per week. They highlight the power of compound interest and how consistent, small contributions can lead to significant long-term growth.

Structure

1Introduction to giving a child a financial head start
2Explaining the concept of generational wealth and parental responsibility
3Demonstrating the Acorns app and its features

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25$ a week is doable!! @Acorns #faith #family #Fitness #finance #wlw

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How to Give Your Child a Financial Head Start Our son has three separate investment accounts. To the best of your ability and give them a head start in life. And before anyone comes for me saying that this is just a privileged perspective, let me show you how easy it is to set your kid up for success. Here's one of our son's investment accounts. We use it through an app called acorns. This is a custodial investment account. We contribute about $25 per week to this account. $25/week from infancy to age 18 = $47,819. This is automated so we don't see it, but I know for a fact the average American because let's face it, we're consumers. We can skip a Chipotle, order a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts, run an Amazon purchase. I know we can skip those things once a week to set your kid up for success. This custodial investment account allows for us to save and invest our son's money for long term If he decides to leave it invested until age 30 = $146,000 instead of just letting it sit in a traditional savings account doing nothing and collecting zero Investing gives this money the opportunity to grow through what's called compound interest. We have to realise how small and consistent contributions can be over time. Compound interest is real. As always, stick to the script, stay true to the formula Faith, finance. Faith, Family, Fitness, Finance

Transcript

Our son has three separate investment accounts. Our son has three separate investment accounts, let me show you one of them so you can give your kid a financial head start in life. My wife and I are huge believers in generational wealth and we also believe it is a parents duty and responsibility to set your kid up to the best of your ability and give them a head start in life. And before anyone comes for me saying that this is just a privileged perspective, let me show you how easy it is to set your kid up for success. Here's one of our son's investment accounts. We use it through an app called acorns. This is a custodial investment account. We contribute about $25 per week to this account. This is automated so we don't see it, but I know for a fact the average American because let's face it, we're consumers. We can skip a Chipotle, order a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts, run an Amazon purchase. I know we can skip those things once a week to set your kid up for success. This custodial investment account allows for us to save and invest our son's money for long term instead of just letting it sit in a traditional savings account doing nothing and collecting zero interest. Over time, investing gives this money the opportunity to grow through what's called compound interest. We have to realise how small and consistent contributions can be over time. Compound interest is real. As always, stick to the script, stay true to the formula Faith, finance. Faith, Family, Fitness, Finance