As a professional financial planner I spend my days talking with adults about their investments, spending habits and savings plans. As a dad, something that I try to do (and often don’t succeed) is to teach my kids about money. A recent example was that I actually had cash in my wallet (you remember those plasticky things that have a 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 on them??) and used it to pay at a supermarket. As the change came out of the self-serve machine, Miss 6’s eyes opened wide and was like “what is that?” …………. Uh ohhhh, I’ve not done my job too well in that department!! She thought that all our money was “in your phone dad”!