Educate Your Children Most young people lack the financial know-
how and skills to make sound financial decisions, yet everyone
needs these crucial life skills for their economic well-being as
well as for our nation’s future. Our complex financial and
consumer market system, and the many new options and information
available over the Internet, heighten the challenges for youth
to be financially competent and responsible caretakers of their
financial resources. Kids $ Kash is a 4-issue consumer education
program supported by 4-H. A leader’s guide supplements
information in the youth issues. Kids $ Kash is designed for at
least 4 sessions. A leader or helper is encouraged to expand or
rearrange the unit outline to meet the needs of the group,
whether it is a community or school enrichment program. Each
youth issue has a general topic introduction, purpose statement,
and objectives for each activity in the unit/issue. For each
issue, the leader’s guide has these major components: teaching
aids, procedure, and loo