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Things My Dad Taught Me As A Kid | Bridger Pennington

24 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Bridger Pennington's dad turned Sunday car rides into finance lessons, quizzing his kids on mortgages, interest, and credit scores. By twelve, Bridger learned to short a stock. His father believed understanding money meant earning more of it later.

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So here's something my dad did for me and my other brothers. Whenever we drove in the car and on Sunday nights, the car specifically was good because you can't leave, you're stuck in the car. So my dad would ask us like, hey, do you guys know what a mortgage is? You know what interest means? You know what a deposit is or a credit score? My dad taught me how to short a stock at 12 years old. He'd explain it to us in the car and kind of sometimes make us explain it back to him. He'd almost quiz us in the back seats and he always led it with, you kids can learn more about money, the more money you'll make in the future. So we were incentivized to learn and I think it really benefited me and my brothers.