The Book Millionaire Kids Inspiring Stories

On the continuing search for books that can help my kids with their financial literacy. Came across Millionaire Kids: Inspiring Stories of Young Entrepreneurs Who Became Rich Before Graduating High School. Wow., sort of figuring what I think about this. Okay so I didn’t buy it, but did read the sample. The book is basically supposed to be inspirational stories for kids about other kids who made a lot of money while they were very young. There’s maybe 40 kids who have very short biographies of 3 pages or so that says what they did and how they made money. Mennh.

The writing is okay, definitely not professional, obviously self published, which I have no problem with. There’s nothing inherently wrong with teaching kids about successful people so that they might be inspired to do something themselves, the Little People Big Dreams Steve Jobs book is good. Although for some reason this doesn’t really sit well with me and not something I would buy for my kids. The cover has pictures of money bags, money, a piggy bank. It kind of hits me that this book is very new millennium attention economy. In the description of the book the author makes statements like “Becoming a millionaire as a teen in no longer an impossible goal… it’s quickly becoming the new normal.” No it’s not, it’s actually impossibly rare and really hard. She makes a statement suggesting turn social media scrolling into money-earning and become an influencer. Lots of hype, questionable biographies, not sure how many are actually millionaires.

Pretty sure Millionaire Kids is sending the wrong message. I could be wrong. But this is a hard pass for our house.