Paul Clitheroe

In a focus group, a five-year-old said to us, oh, money, money's easy.

If you want to get money, just buy stuff.

And the room stopped.

And a charming young kid in a very fun, safe environment.

Everyone was having a bit of a chuckle.

We were just obviously, we're not teachers.

We were just sitting listening.

And the teacher handling the session beautifully said, so how do you get money buying stuff?

And the little five-year-old said, well, I'm not silly.

I go out with mummy and daddy and we go to the supermarket and we get a trolley of stuff.

And when we get to the counter to get all our stuff, they give us money.

In other words, what mum and dad have done

is quite sensibly they need cash to buy fish next door or something, whatever it might be, or get their shoes done.

So mum and dad have said, thanks for all the groceries.

Could we have $100 with that?

Now, I'm laughing my head off about this, but there's a deep truth here.

And a role for parents and grandparents, schools can't do this, a role for parents and grandparents is, and I do this with our grandkids of two to seven,

And I'm making a, Vicky and myself are making a real effort to make money real for our grandkids.

Like mum and dad have taken them to a bank to get a bank account set up.

And the, no good of the two-year-old.