{"id":69916,"date":"2023-05-21T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T09:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=69916"},"modified":"2023-05-21T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T09:21:17","slug":"worrying-about-money-is-what-adults-do-thats-why-we-need-to-prepare-the-young-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/21\/worrying-about-money-is-what-adults-do-thats-why-we-need-to-prepare-the-young-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrying about money is what adults do. That\u2019s why we need to prepare the young for it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My reflections on money reached the pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/politics\/23536459.way-win-independence-removing-peoples-worries-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National in Scotland <\/a>today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-69917 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1062-550x444.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1062-550x444.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1062-372x300.jpeg 372w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1062-768x620.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1062-495x400.jpeg 495w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1062.jpeg 1345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>I am not a regular Sunday columnist there, but the editor rang me yesterday afternoon when she realised she was a column short for the paper due to problems that had arisen. An hour later I had filled the blank space in this morning\u2019s paper. When necessary, I can be a word machine.<\/p>\n<p>My basic thesis is that being an adult means you worry about money. What we need to do is reduce that stress. Hence, my discussions on this site on money education.<\/p>\n<p>The article is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My reflections on money reached the pages of The National in Scotland today: I am not a regular Sunday columnist there, but the editor rang<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/05\/21\/worrying-about-money-is-what-adults-do-thats-why-we-need-to-prepare-the-young-for-it\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69920,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69916\/revisions\/69920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}