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(Financial Literacy & Entrepreneurship Pillar) Parents Are Realizing Why Financial Literacy Matters for Teens More and more parents are recognizing a quiet truth: their teens are academically capable, socially aware, and technologically fluent yet many are leaving high school without the basic skills needed to manage money, make confident financial decisions, or understand how income actually works. Financial literacy for teens is no longer a “nice to have.” It is a life skil

Many parents tell us the same thing: “My teen is capable, but they don’t see it.” Today’s teens are navigating academic expectations, social comparison, and constant feedback often before they’ve built the internal skills to interpret it. Teen confidence, for many adolescents, becomes something fragile and conditional rather than steady and self-directed. But here’s an important reframe: Confidence doesn’t disappear in adolescence. It just hasn’t been trained yet. Confidence