The Complete Personal Finance for Kids and Teenagers Course (Udemy.com)
Teach your children financial literacy through a fun, animated cartoon by an Oxford grad
Created by: Steeve Simbert
Last updated August 2024
What you will learn
- Learn about personal finance, budgeting and how to manage your money
- Better understand money and the economy
- Understand the role of tax, banks, interest rates, inflation
- Understand debt, student loan, and bankruptcy
- Why you should start saving at a young age
- Understand Roth 401(k) vs 401(k)
- Understand Traditional IRA vs. Roth IRA
- Understand risk vs. reward
- Learn about basic investments
- The difference between stocks vs. bonds
- Understand Mutual Funds vs. Index Funds
- Understand compounding interest
- Learn about diversification
- Learn about protecting yourself and insurance
- 26 downloadable resources summarizing each lecture, including homework questions
- 26 quizzes, consisting of 78 multiple choice questions (3 questions per each episode's quiz)
How it compares
Against the other 33 rated Udemy courses in Personal Finance on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 33% of them
- Reviews479#12 of 34 by number of reviews
- Length4.2 hourslonger than 69% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2024more recently than 57% of them
Course Description
Whether you end up with a financially comfortable future or struggle endlessly with debt depends on only one thing: your financial literacy. Are you ready to take your personal finance knowledge to the next level while having fun? Do you want a teacher who explains complex finance, business, and economic concepts in an engaging and fun way? Do you wish you had been taught personal finance at an early age?
Then, this course is perfect for you!
In this course, you will learn in a fun, exciting, and engaging way. The course uses animated cartoon videos to help kids and teenagers, from middle school and high school students (10 to 17 years), intuitively understand everything they need to know about personal finance. If you are an adult seeking an advanced finance course, this course is NOT for you. Topics range from basic financial concepts to investing and saving for retirement.
Besides teaching essential topics that students would learn from any personal finance class, this course provides applicable real-life, practical business concepts that will help your kids start at an early age and become more successful in managing their personal finances.
This course aims to provide you with financial wisdom that'll help you manage your money to create wealth and live a good life. You will learn many things that take place in the economy to make you smarter with your personal finance. The course is organized into six sections as follows:
Section 1: Personal Finance
Lecture 1. Invest In Yourself
Lecture 2. Financial Freedom
Lecture 3. The Three Little Pigs & Financial Planning
Lecture 4. How Should We Think About Money?
Lecture 5. Budgeting
Section 2. Understanding Money & The Economy
Lecture 6. Money vs. Currency
Lecture 7. What is Tax?
Lecture 8. The Role of Banks
Lecture 9. Interest Rates
Lecture 10. Inflation
Section 3: Understanding Debt
Lecture 11. What Is Debt?
Lecture 12. Bad Debt vs. Good Debt
Lecture 13. Student Loan
Lecture 14. What Is Bankruptcy?
Section 4: Saving For The Future
Lecture 15. Why Do People Save?
Lecture 16. Roth 401(K) vs. 401(K)
Lecture 17. Traditional IRA vs. Roth IRA
Section 5: Investment
Lecture 18. Parable of the Talents
Lecture 19. Risk vs. Reward
Lecture 20. Compounding Interest
Lecture 21. Stocks vs. Bonds
Lecture 22. Mutual Funds vs. Index Funds
Lecture 23. Diversification
Section 6: Financial Assistance & Tips
Lecture 24. Insurance
Lecture 25. How To Avoid Financial Scammers
Lecture 26. Give Back
DISCLAIMER: Please be aware that I am not a licensed financial advisor, and the information contained in this course should not be considered as professional financial advice. The content is presented strictly for educational purposes and represents my personal experiences and viewpoints on financial principles. It's crucial for you to undertake your own research and seek advice from a certified financial professional prior to making any financial decisions.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
479 Reviews
Steeve Simbert
Steeve Simbert is passionate about teaching personal finance to kids and teenagers. He earned a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, a Master of Business Administration from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.
Steeve also studied abroad at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Cape Town and is a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) fellow from Princeton University.
He is the author of three books: The Adventures of Catie and Connor: A Time-Travel Quest for Benjamin Franklin's Wealth Secrets, Finding Hope in Chaos: Rising From Crisis into the American Dream, and The Young Leader’s Guide to Internships, Scholarships, and Fellowships in Washington, D.C., and Beyond.
Steeve has consulted for IT Portfolio Management and Investments at the Department of State and is a Certified Technology Business Management Executive from the Technology Business Management Council. His professional experience also includes work in the U.S. Congress, consultancy for the Department of the Navy, and founding several companies.
In addition to his diverse background, Steeve is a REALTOR® with McNelis & Associates at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty, specializing in Maryland’s luxury and waterfront properties.
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Reviews
By Ezhil Pandian on 7/19/2026
This course is very attractive for kids 8 and below but when the title literally says teens and kids, older kids try it too but they will say this course is cringe (if you know what I mean). This is because the course Is like a little kid tv show which is good for LITTLE KIDS to learn finance and wealth but I don't think older kids and teens are going to be interested in watching little kid stuff. SO it would be a 5 star for kids (little) but for older kids its a 2 1/2
By Verdant 1279 on 4/28/2026
It's more like slapping on an animation to normal financial learning. Though it was still pretty good.
By Paresh on 7/30/2025
I am a 12 year old kid aspiring to invest, grow my wealth and gain financial freedom. This course helped me in more ways than one. It is fun, funny and finally knowledgeable. I hope you give it a shot and let it shine!!!
By Sebastian Ho on 1/9/2025
Very Good explanations Prof Stevy (Steve Simbert) could make another course in deeper explanations. I highly recommend this course to anyone who needs financial wisdom or anything to do with money. This is not only for kids but also for adults, teachers, teenagers, undergraduates etc. Thank you so much!!!
By Aria Sawyer on 8/23/2024
This course is very educational and helps people make better decisions for themselves and others, I’d say this is a very great and amazing course!
By Girish on 7/15/2024
When I first started this course I did not have high hopes and thought I was already an expert in the finance field. Who knew I had so much to learn and discover. This course continues to teach me new things that will aid my future and I highly recommend it to people looking to pursue finance or just learn how to manage their personal finances. Overall this course is AMAZING!
By Anthony Ciunciusky on 4/3/2024
I feel like this course was very helpful, and it taught me a lot; if it were a little more in-depth, I would have enjoyed it even more. Anyway, it is still an amazing course.
By Amelia on 2/9/2024
Thank you for doing this course, it was really fun and I learned a lot from it. I would also be interested in a higher-level course on this topic of finance.
By Victoria Lessa Lima on 1/25/2024
I really like this because it was easy too understand but you should add a little key so we can see what some words mean without you needing to explain what a word means but I really enjoyed the course!.
By Mohit Sharma on 8/28/2023
I think this course is very important for teenagers as a teen i have learnt alot form this course, using animation skill to explain personal finance becomes more interesting, thank you for making this course.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100






