Topic: Don't Force Your Children to Learn Bitcoin - page 13. (Read 1936 times)

The main thing is that children do not need to be forced to do anything. Doesn't matter are we talking about bitcoin or swimming lessons. But we should to teach them financial literacy, economical responsibility and how people earn money.
Children should develop harmoniously in all areas. We must teach them to play sports, study well, introduce them to IT and computers in general. Perhaps singing, musical instruments or dancing. If the child grows up smart, he will be able to make the right choice for him. Will their life be connected with bitcoin and cryptocurrency is secondary.

Ever heard the old advice "Effort and prayer is the way that can knock on the door of destiny in the sky". So there's nothing wrong with people trying to teach something to their children, as long as they know what needs to be taught for their children's provisions in adulthood. Yes, it's true, like some of the sources you quoted, that children shouldn't be forced to follow us because everything will flow by itself, but the role of parents is important to direct them both regarding financial capabilities and other matters, so that they look more ready to live their life later.

Maybe it's just the way of approach that we need to know, for example the approach we take must be appropriate to the age of the child and also provide an understanding that bitcoin can bring someone to the stage of financial freedom if done correctly. A father's instinct must know what is best for his child, therefore it is important to teach children how to be responsible, focus on activities they like and know what to do so that their finances are much better in living their lives later as adults. Of course the method doesn't have to be coercion to follow what we want, but provide space for him to like what we want to teach him.

I don't even recommend children to learn about bitcoin, the best thing they should do is just to focus on their education, it won't be easy for them to learn about bitcoin and also learn about their academics in school, education is also investment, so let them focus on their education, when it's time to learn about bitcoin, they will definitely learn about it, but don't disturb your children because you want them to learn about bitcoin.

Definitely some are really and some are just creating the threads just to get the attention, but am sure even the once that are created for just attention, other members of the forum will definitely learn from it. I know their are some people that will be forcing their children to learn about bitcoin, but if they can see people's opinion here, they will be able to learn.

Same here. I am also single or not married yet but in the future, I will tell them about cryptocurrency and I'll let them decide if they wanted to learn or doesn't want to. As what the title said, this is what I want to do when I have children of my own and I will let them decide on which one they want and it's either they are going to learn or do nothing.

A couple of months ago, or maybe more, maybe a year, I was playing some LN games like Bitcoin Bounce and Turbo86 and my daughter also played for quite a while. She knows just the basic of Bitcoin (she's only 11) and everyone already saw those videos where a guy is asking random girls, in the night, if they would prefer 100€ or 1 Bitcoin and they all say 100€, of course. I asked my 11 year old the same and she took less than 2 secons to say that she would prefer 1 Bitcoin because it worths way more than 100€... 

I don't know where country do you reside from, OP but this seems like a toxic family culture here in my country in the Philippines where in the parents would force their children to adopt what they had learn in their lives thinking that their knowledge is still relevant to this day. It's like the boomer mindset in simpler words.  The children would want to be a software developer, but his/her parents would want them to be an engineer even if the son/daughter purely hates it.

To what you just said, I would just tell my children for awareness that there is such thing as Bitcoin and I would just let them know that I would be here to guide them if they became interested to it, not really forcing it.

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I would still teach them how to handle money in general though like all those budgeting-topics whenever the right time already arrives.

This is true not just for the children but to the elders not adopting the latest technology these days. Unless there's like a good reason in not adopting a certain technology, I don't think it should be problem. If they stick the usual QWERTY phones, that's fine but if they think that they can still use floppy disk to store their documents electronically then I think there's gotta be more KT that should be involved.

It's not just about our children; we shouldn't impose the learning of Bitcoin on anyone who isn't interested in it. When discussing Bitcoin with someone, we may discover whether the other person is genuinely interested or not. If we insist on pushing the conversation forward with someone who lacks interest, it would be futile and a waste of time. The same principle applies when talking to our children about Bitcoin – we need to gauge their reactions. Instead of forcing the topic, it's better to gradually educate them and share our success stories related to Bitcoin. This way, they may develop an interest in it over time.

No doubt I have seen several threads in the forum that talks about educating our kids about bitcoin and I remember creating a similar thread like that which was not a duplication of what has already been discussed though the centre message still pointed out on the benefits of our kids having knowledge of bitcoin which is not so bad but none of the threads talks about forcing any child or our children to have the knowledge of bitcoin as you said and bitcoin investment has nothing to do with the destiny of anyone so I will advise you to edit your post and correct your mistakes.Imo, I see nothing wrong with my kids having bitcoin knowledge hence they aren't taking bitcon investment as a full-time job but any one of them who wishes to do a full time bitcoin investment is welcome because I see nothing bad in doing that.

One cannot force anyone to do something because interest play an important role in the success of a person therefore one can teach another person but cannot force him. I think whenever the children become able to earn money and create a mind to do some job then telling him about bitcoin is not a bad idea but try to teach them to use bitcoin only for purchasing and investment purposes.

Teaching your child about bitcoin should not be denied because its one of the most success token and is providing an easy way of earning so instead of going abroad for job investment in Bitcoin will be more worthy.

Teaching on the context of making the child or children know the benefits of both fiat and Bitcoin then having them choose the path to follow as they get older is probably the best form... They should have equal knowledge about these forms of currency ... It's only proper that parents with greater knowledge of
 Bitcoin pass it on to their children as I am very sure it's a gift from parents that every child will live to thank his/her parent for ... But none should be coerced into learning any of them whether fiat or Bitcoin

I don't have kids so I don't know exactly what to do about teaching kids about Bitcoin.
In recent days there has been a thread about how he found a group of kids painting the Bitcoin logo as taught by his father.

But I have an argument about what parents should do with their children in managing their future.
Parents need to see where the talent of a child is going during his growth and development.
Children's talents will be seen from daily interactions as long as we are willing to take the time to monitor.

A father teaching and introducing Bitcoin is good, but it's better for a father to accompany what is his expertise. Like the story of friendship played in the movie "3 idiots".

true, something that is too forced will end badly, therefore it is better to provide knowledge to children about what bitcoin is, but the decision to accept or not is entirely up to them, we cannot force them to adopt bitcoin just like us. they have their own thoughts and we cannot impose our will.

but usually these children will quickly understand if they are directed without coercion, usually they will tend to be curious about what their parents are doing, and that can make them understand more about what bitcoin is and the possibility that they will adopt it too will get bigger, because they see firsthand that their parents enjoy the results of adopting bitcoin in their daily lives.

Children will only want to focus on play and pleasure, but if they will be exposed earlier about saving and managing their money, maybe it will help them to develop early interest in bitcoin. Of course, parents should never force their children to like and invest with bitcoin, but at least we should educate them on it so that in the near future, if they want to invest in bitcoin, they will have already that idea on how to work on it.

It really depend on who you are and how you think about bitcoin itself.
There are two things, bitcoin is currency - it is also an investment asset. You have to tell your kids how bitcoin functions as currency - you also need to tell them what the potential of bitcoin as an investment asset is.

It's the same when you tell what is the use of USD around the world as currency and what is the use of gold as an investment asset. So you have to think about something simple instead of thinking too hard about bitcoin. Oh I forgot, you don't need to teach your kids to become an expert on bitcoin - but just teach them to know what bitcoin is for so they don't go out of style when you are old.

I read a reply in the forum a long ago. I don't remember who was the author and where I read that. But, I will try to say what was written there. You better teach your kids about Privacy. Teach them the importance of privacy. Understanding how privacy can save someone from the rest of the world is crucial. Why they should care about privacy. The next thing you can do is introduce Bitcoin to them and explain the benefit of using it. Then, let them decide what they should do. I am pretty sure they will think of Bitcoin if they know how privacy can save them.

I think no child will want to learn Bitcoin by nature unless the parents will introduced Bitcoin to them. We all experienced being a child and we only like playing. Those financial things are typically not the children problem because there's always a time for them to learn that.

We are just stealing them their childhood if we will exposed them early on the financial problem of our life. Parents should be the one that will save for their children and just transfer it to the child when they are on the right age.

I don't know why children below have to rush to be taught about bitcoin even though it's clear their abilities won't get there whereas in the sense of bitcoin it's quite complicated especially if the child doesn't like it from an early age then it's better to let him grow bigger and decide what you want.

I'm sure if he is old enough he will know about the environment and also their finances so they will later decide after graduating from school or college it's better to prioritize education first when it comes to teaching about bitcoin then at that age he will definitely understand and have drawn conclusions her about her career.

I must say that parents should not force their children to do a thing that they're not interested in, but if parents allow the children to do the things they like then most of the children would either be watching social media reels day and night or they might be playing the games like Pubg mobile most of the time.

It's the responsibility of the parents to guide their children towards good things, and without proper direction children won't be able to decide that what's good for them and what's not. In case of Bitcoin I must say that the parents should discuss about it with their children and at the same time they would tell them the story of the two Pizzas that were bought for 10000BTC, so that they can develop some interest toward leaning about a currency that was very cheap in 2010 and in 2020 the price was really high that 10000BTC would be a treasure of wealth for someone.

I'm against forcing children to do the things that their parents want them to do, but if you treat your children as your friends then you would discuss such great things with them as a friend discusses things with their friends. If your children are mature enough and they want to learn about Bitcoin then it's a must thing to teach them about it. You'll be very happy when you see your children adopting to a technology that could make their future better and would help them to learn about economics without even studying the discipline.

Some of them just want to get attention by making up topics as if it's their real life.
But there are some incidents that are real. But most of them are just made-up dramas.

Minors are not yet the time to know anything about Bitcoin or making money. They just need to play.
If they are old enough and understand their environment, then providing knowledge about Bitcoin will be the basic knowledge they will learn.
When they start to know they will remember it.

Umm, sometimes I wonder if those posting this threads ars actually doing it or just for creating thread sakes.
I may not have kids yet but I have nieces and nephews whom I don't even discuss anything relating to crypto with considering their age and how volatile and risky this space can be.
I feel when they are of age that discussion will eventually come up but for now they can concentrate on their studies. Anyways, we all have our ways of addressing issues.