Economics is not first learned in classrooms, markets, or ballot boxes. It is learned in the home. Long before children encounter taxes, debt, or inflation, they are already forming beliefs about money, work, fairness, and responsibility. If parents do not teach these truths deliberately, the State and the screen will fill the vacuum — and they will not teach freedom. Children must learn early the difference between voluntary help and forced redistribution, between charity and control, between earning and entitlement. These lessons do not require jargon or ideology. They require only simple questions, lived examples, and the courage to tell the truth plainly. A child who understands choice, consequence, and scarcity does not grow into a cruel adult. They grow into a competent one. And competence, not sentiment, is the foundation of a free society.
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