Financially Illiterate Book Cover
A BOOK BY JELENA PETRONIJEVIC

Financially Illiterate

You didn’t get the lesson. Your children still can.

We all inherit a money story, but not all of us know how to rewrite it.

For decades, we taught children algebra, history, and grammar, then sent them into adulthood financially illiterate. Never before has money been so easy to spend yet so hard to manage.

Financially Illiterate is the book that fills that gap.

Written by a Melbourne educator who lived through hyperinflation in Yugoslavia and learned about money the hard way — through debt, silence, and a library section she stumbled upon almost by accident. This book reveals not just how money works, but how you work with money.

This isn't a spreadsheet book. It doesn't begin with budgets or investment jargon. It begins with the inherited patterns nobody talks about: emotional spending, the financial behaviours we absorb as children, and the environment quietly spending for us. From there, it builds toward the practical skills schools never taught.

Because if we don't learn this ourselves, we pass the gap on.

What You'll Gain:

A framework for understanding habit origins
Tools for budgeting and saving
Confidence to talk to children
Practical weekly insights

Order your copy and start changing your family's money story together.

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