They say that the key to financial independence is not all about getting employed and earning a salary from it. Success is not as easy as that. If it were that easy, all of us would have been stuck with having a usual nine to five job at any traditional employment setting until now.

For most of us, we were probably reared in a normal home with a parent or both parents working for an employer and earning an income from traditional jobs. How the family would live a normal life usually depends on how much a breadwinner is earning for the family. Unless someone from the generation leaves that family with an inheritance, such a family will always be the typical average family earning just about enough or even less than enough to be able to afford the cost of living.

We all want to have a good retirement one day. However, if we would only rely on our monthly paychecks from our employers throughout most of our employment lives, we might not attain a comfortable retirement one Besides, we can’t really be sure just how long we can keep ourselves employed.

In the book called Rich Dad Poor Dad, Kiyosaki and co-author Lechter teaches us about investing some of our money to get passive income and building our own businesses and many other money-enriching thoughts and tips to ponder upon. Because of the book, we will learn more than the basic concepts about what are assets and what are liabilities.

Despite getting a lot of criticisms and being accused of someone involved only on “get rich quick” schemes, the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Kiyosaki, is said to be the living example of his own book. Indeed, it helps to have a rich dad teaching us how to work hard and to invest our earnings wisely. If we want to be truly rich, poor dad’s thinking has to be dumped.

Hopefully, we can become rich dads (or moms) to our own children, too. In fact, we can help them actually get started with financial literacy by exposing them to financial educational toys such as the old monopoly game as well as all the financial games that Kiyosaki created himself such as the Cashflow for Kids and the Cashflow 101 board game.

These Cashflow board games are financial board games which are slightly like the old monopoly board game that will definitely stimulate our children’s minds and will help them learn more about financial management. It will be a good idea to play with them, too. So, if you don’t have these games now, these may be considered as great gift ideas for your children.

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