About Robin Taub
A Chartered Professional Accountant by training, Robin Taub began her career at KPMG, transitioned into real estate, and then landed in the complex world of derivatives marketing at Citibank Canada.
Today, she’s a keynote speaker and the award-winning author of The Wisest Investment, an update of the bestselling A Parent’s Guide to Raising Money-Smart Kids.
Robin lives in Toronto, where she and her husband have raised two (mostly) money-smart young adults. For fun, she loves to snowboard, cycle, and go to concerts. She even got backstage once and met Bruce Springsteen. Ask her how – she loves talking about it!
Where to find Robin Taub
The Wisest Investment: Teaching Your Kids to Be Responsible, Independent and Money-Smart for Life
As parents, you know that teaching their kids about money is critical to success in life, but studies show that many parents feel they lack the time, knowledge, and experience to do it well. Add the seismic shift toward a cashless, digital society — accelerated in our post-pandemic world — and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.
With The Wisest Investment: Teaching Your Kids to Be Responsible, Independent and Money-Smart for Life, award-winning Canadian author and Chartered Professional Account Robin Taub puts you at ease by laying out a roadmap for teaching your kids about money.
In The Wisest Investment, you’ll learn:
- The Five Pillars of Money: Earn, Save, Spend, Share and Invest
- Age-appropriate (from young kids to emerging adults) examples, actions and guidelines for all Five Pillars
- How to instill solid values in your children to help guide and prioritize their financial decisions
- How to help your children establish healthy money habits for life
- How to capitalize on “teachable moments” about money in countless everyday scenarios
- How to enhance your own money knowledge, so you can “lead by example”
- How to explain and navigate our increasingly cashless society
Written in short, punchy chapters, it’s a go-to resource for time-starved parents like you. Filled with practical guidance and examples, suggested activities, worksheets and self-assessment tools, it’s a book you will turn to again and again.
Teaching your kids to be money-smart will pay off in numerous ways and just maybe one of the wisest investments you make.
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