...Teaching them early could be a good start of curiosity as well since they will wonder what is bitcoin, they might or might not search about it in the future but getting the idea will at least make them wonder and maybe they will become an investor like what we are as well.
I'd say that investing is a very small part of what should children be taught about bitcoin. Information and digital security and how to operate new irreversible money systems and what is important to understand with that, — there is so many things children should know before starting using bitcoin. Unfortunately not all the parents can teach that as even many on this forum consider bitcoin just as an investment and sometimes even hold it on exchanges or in custodial wallets... So majority of us should still learn something about bitcoin ourselves as well.
Yep.. You cannot really teach something if you do not really understand it very well yourself, and if you have a lot of misunderstandings or even perverted ideas about what bitcoin is as compared with other assets classes and as compared with various shitcoins, then you may well end up teaching dumb-ass information to your kids and whether or not they become dumber than you or sometimes kids are able to recognize how dumb their parents are and to figure out their own path.. yet many of us also likely realize that many times kids will go through phases in which they think that they know way more than they do, too.. so there are likely a lot of balances that might be attempted to be reached in terms of both sharing useful knowledge with kids, recognizing places in which the parent might not be sufficiently familiar to teach, and then also potentially using the opportunities to teach kids as a way to better learn the subject matter that they are attempting to teach.
So, yeah.... how much time might any parent have to teach his/her kid about bitcoin-related topics might also depend upon how many hours a parent is choosing or feeling forced to have to work in whatever kinds of cash earning activities that s/he is partaking on a weekly or monthly basis.. and then maybe figuring out how to employ time-management skills to figure out if there might be times in which s/he might study more about and into bitcoin and to potentially schedule time in which s/he might specifically share such knowledge with kids - beyond perhaps the kid emulating the parent or merely the various interactions that might also incidentally take place between parent and child whether in the regular daily activities or in specially planned and scheduled activities too.... There are likely learning opportunities that come up in a variety of situations on a weekly/monthly basis, and there likely is also a quite a bit of discretion regarding how to treat any of the potentially learning opportunity situations that come up along the way in any parental/child relationship/interactions.
I don't hate someone teaching bitcoin to children, but I strongly oppose teaching bitcoin to children who are too young. Many parents on the forum are trying to teach their children about bitcoin when they are too young to learn about bitcoin or other investments. That is the age when children need to have fun and explore everything in the world around them, not force them to follow our thoughts. And you're right, teaching them to invest too early won't make them rich in the future, but many parents aren't aware of this.
You are likely not saying anything wrong, Wend. For sure, many of us have already talked about age-appropriate ways of talking about or teaching kids, and so there should be some common sense that 4-8 year olds may well not really need to know about investing, beyond the fact that investing exists, but they may well need to become aware that money does not arrive to the parents out of thin air, so they might need to be exposed to information in relationship to some of the various ways that money comes to their parents - and that later in life (perhaps between 8 years and 12 years old), further specifics might be described to kids or even they might become involved in terms of managing some of their own money and/or spending or savings habits, so further topics might become more relevant in the 8-12 age as compared to topics that had been relevant in the 4-8 years of age time periods.
