Honey, I orange-pilled the kids! BTC children's authors on learning about money
Bitcoin is for everyone. That includes teenagers, children, toddlers and even newborns.
When these kids grow up, they’ll use the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol, so it “makes sense to start to integrate Bitcoin into learning as early as possible.”
At least, that’s according to Scott Sibley, one-half of the couple behind the creation of the Shamory Bitcoin game and the ‘Goodnight Bitcoin’ children’s bedtime book. He joins a growing list of Bitcoin children’s book authors who care deeply about educating children on Bitcoin and money.
Sibley and his wife are firm believers that “kids can learn much faster, and earlier than most people think.”
It’s one of the reasons why they wrote their Bitcoin bedtime story, a tale for infants that riffs on the “plethora of “Goodnight” books (Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Baseball, etc.)” Incidentally, it also serves as a nice primer for their semi-educational game about Bitcoin mining, SHAmory.
The Sibleys noticed there’s a “product and content gap when it comes to fun ways for kids and adults to learn about Bitcoin,” and are bringing educational content that extends beyond the podcasts, books and long-form essays which Bitcoiners usually gorge upon.
“Financial education that includes Bitcoin is something that kids aren’t going to receive in most “traditional” schools. So right now it’s on Bitcoin parents to find ways to weave that education in at home.”
Chris and Frieda Bobay are the brains behind Bitcoin for Kiddos, the story of Bitcoin. They’re another couple passionate keen to impart knowledge into “children about money early,” so that “they will have the best opportunity to recognize it [uncorruptible money] when they see it.”
They told Cointelegraph:
They add that “money for most adults is a taboo
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