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For Parents

mom teaching son business skills

As a mother of three, two of them being young men now, I personally understand the challenges that come with trying to provide the best education to our children.  Our entire educational system is being challenged as we know it and many wonder if their child is being given the proper tools that will truly help them to become self-sufficient adults who are happy and ultimately financially independent. 

My growing pains in dealing with the struggle to get my two oldest children through elementary and high school taught me that I could not depend on the school system alone to properly educate my children.  Even more than that, I realized there were some important skills my kids would never be taught in school and that I would need to take responsibility and teach them, like general life skills of writing a check, budgeting, how to purchase a home, or how to start a business.  

Since accounting and finance was always of interest to me it would be easy for me to take my children under my care and teach them all I could so they could grow up to be confident in their decision making for their own lives.  However, many parents do not have this ability and therefore, K.E.Y.A. Foundation’s programs are critically important.  Whether your child participates in our Summer learning courses or engages our courses all throughout the year, we believe they will be a great compliment to their school learning and provide a more well- rounded education for your child overall.