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Don't let your kids go broke!

Your step by step guide for teaching YOUR CHILDREN important money and life skills...
...and YOURSELF if you need to!_1

 Sylvia_1.jpgAuthor Sylvia Bowden has written this book based on her many years experience as a life coach,budget advisor and counsellor. Click here to read more about her experience and expertise.  She has developed the Silbo System® as a tool that will give parents the knowledge and power to teach and train their children how to survive in these challenging financial times. Click here to find out how the Silbo system® can change your families financial thinking and empower your children to not make silly mistakes with their finances as they grow into adulthood 

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If you are a concerned parent,

 grandparent or friend of someone who needs financial help, then this site will give you some tools to help them (or yourself) to be and stay financially well.

Find out about the Silbo System® and how it can help you get basic financial principles ingrained into your child's mind BEFORE they get themselves into debt

Read some of our articles on raising financially savvy kids

Have a look at our ebook  and view the first 47 pages FREE.  to see what lessons and exercises we teach.

Look at one of the eight steps we cover on "How to" teach your kids about money

View a pdf of some of the pages showing the "How to" teach your child these important money skills.

Have a look at the TV shows as Sylvia talks about the book and how she became interested in the huge problem of lack of financial literacy in the youth of today.
ABOUT THE BOOK.What makes this book different from other books and why you should get it! 

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 We are currently looking for a publisher/distributor for the book in Asia/Pacific, USA, Canada and Europe. Contact us

 

Grapevine_cover_Nov_2009.jpgIn November 2009 Grapevine magazine featured an interview with Sylvia on "Surviving the squeeze".  Sylvia talks with Frances Coventry on how we can train our kids to handle money and what can be done to stop our kids going broke. 

 

Grapevine has a circulation of over 160,000 and is distributed throughout New Zealand.

Click here to read the article as pdf

See Sylvia On TV

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Author Sylvia Bowden appears on television talking about how to stop your kids from going broke and the importance of family/parents as first teachers about money.  Click here to view...

Book Review

With New Zealand families spending $1.14 for every $1 of earnings, it seems clear that How to Stop Your Kids From Going Broke! is the very book our parents needed. Click here to read more...


ARTICLES

How to raise financially savvy kids

Sylvia has written a number of useful articles which are published in provincial newspapers on a weekly basis. To read any of her latest three articles click on the links below or click here to view the full list together with testimonials and reviews.

This weeks article  Dont plan to fail.  

 

Last week Tax Cuts and what to do with them

 

Viewers favourites - Pros and cons of pocket money

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Workshops

If you would like to have Sylvia do a presentation or be a guest speaker for your club, group, school or community centre, then she would love to hear from you:  contact

Testimonials from Workshop and Seminars

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