McDonald’s. Disney. Nike. Brands my kids knew before they could spell them. They’d each pick three favorites, and I’d buy them inside my TFSA. Three little slices of real companies, owned by kids.
They got the magic part: I own a piece of this. If it grows, my money grows.
But I knew I was barely scratching the surface. They loved these companies. I wanted to show them what made one worth owning and another not. But you can’t hand a five-year-old a balance sheet or play them a quarterly earnings call. All I had was logos and small talk, and their stocks sat buried in my account, invisible to the kids who owned them.
So I built what I wished I’d had: cards that teach kids to think like owners. Real companies, real numbers, straight answers. And a dashboard where their money lives out in the open.
My kids don’t just pick companies anymore. They understand them. That’s the difference between owning a logo and thinking like an owner.