Elisabeth O'Quinn
Finance Professional
- Money Mastery
Empower your teens with knowledge that inspires critical thinking and fosters thoughtful discussions about the real world
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Only 13% of eighth graders are proficient in American history. Schools are leaving critical gaps in economic and civic education.
Most teens aren't developing the critical thinking skills needed to analyze information and form their own informed opinions.
Finding educational content that aligns with your family's values while still being engaging is nearly impossible.
A strong mindset can unlock amazing possibilities. With practical strategies and inspiring stories, these courses will help teens build confidence, overcome challenges, and develop the resilience to achieve their goals.
Help your teen see a setback as something to learn from, not a verdict on who they are. They’ll explore how work, failure, feedback, and everyday choices can become opportunities to grow and take greater responsibility for their own direction.
Help your teen define success by their own values instead of grades, likes, or comparison. They’ll practice challenging unhelpful thoughts, managing their time, and taking consistent action, building habits that move meaningful goals into everyday life.
Help your teen connect feeling good today with building a purposeful life over time. They’ll explore emotional resilience, meaningful relationships, financial independence, and personal responsibility, considering how daily decisions can better reflect what matters to them.
Help your teen create a pause between a stressful moment and a reaction they might regret. They’ll practice paying attention, staying present, and making choices that reflect their values—whether they’re handling a deadline, a disagreement, or an important decision.
Uncover the secrets of effective communication and influence. Your teen will understand the motivations behind human behavior.
Help your teen see beyond a convincing headline to the techniques shaping what people believe. They’ll explore propaganda across history and modern media, learning to recognize distorted data, question motives, and make informed choices.
Give your teen a way to turn disagreements into thoughtful conversations instead of frustrating arguments. They’ll learn to research claims, build evidence-based arguments, ask sharper questions, and defend their ideas with confidence and respect.
Help your teen recognize when peer pressure, emotions, or social media are doing their thinking for them. Through psychological experiments and real-world examples, they’ll examine groupthink, question their own assumptions, and practice choosing conviction over conformity.
Your teen has ideas worth hearing—help them learn how to make those ideas clear and compelling. They’ll study powerful speakers and practice using evidence, storytelling, voice, and body language to communicate with purpose.
Learn essential traits that shape strong and honorable character: integrity, empathy, and resilience.
Help your teen turn big ambitions into choices they can make today. With ten practical strategies for setting goals, staying focused, and building positive habits, they’ll learn to take greater ownership of the future they want.
Leadership starts long before someone hands your teen a title. They’ll discover how to earn trust, make decisions rooted in their values, and lead by example on a team, at school, or in their community.
Help your teen navigate strong emotions without letting those emotions make every decision. They’ll learn to recognize what they’re feeling, respond more calmly under pressure, and bring greater understanding to friendships and everyday challenges.
Show your teen that personal success and helping others can grow together. They’ll explore how empathy, reliability, humility, and genuine investment in relationships build the trust that makes meaningful achievement possible.
Explore the turning points of recent world history—from revolutions and world wars to social movements and global conflicts—as we uncover how the past century continues to shape our world today and the choices we face tomorrow.
Give your teen a way to examine big political ideas beyond their slogans and promises. They’ll explore Marxism, socialism, and communism alongside free-market alternatives, comparing how these systems approach individual choice, economic opportunity, and power.
Help your teen explore why wars, cultural upheavals, and periods of rebuilding can feel familiar across centuries. Through the generational-cycle theory presented in The Fourth Turning, they’ll compare historical patterns and consider what those patterns might reveal about their own generation’s moment.
Help your teen connect the world of kings and empires to today’s debates about rights and power. They’ll trace democracy, natural rights, and limited government through European history, examining the choices that expanded freedom—and those that restricted it.
Help your teen trace the decisions behind two world wars, not just memorize when they happened. They’ll connect alliances, empire-building, economic turmoil, and foreign intervention to the consequences that reshaped nations and individual lives.
Take a journey to the past to analyze the brilliant ideas that have influenced our world today as well as learn from the many mistakes, so we aren’t doomed to repeat them.
Help your teen judge presidential leadership by decisions and consequences rather than reputation alone. They’ll examine eight presidencies through constitutional limits, expanded government power, and the lasting effects of choices made in the Oval Office.
Help your teen approach startling historical claims with questions and evidence rather than automatic acceptance. Through cases including MK-Ultra, Operation Northwoods, and Prohibition, they’ll examine secrecy, accountability, and the unintended consequences of public policy.
Help your teen understand why thirteen colonies chose the uncertain path to independence. From exploration and settlement to trade disputes and revolution, they’ll trace the events and ideas that turned resistance to an empire into the founding of a nation.
Give your teen more than a timeline—help them connect America’s past to the choices facing their generation. They’ll examine pivotal events, civil rights, economic change, and the balance of government power to better understand the freedoms at stake today.
Not your typical Civics 101. These courses explain how the government was supposed to work...and provide many examples of how it has gone awry.
Give your teen a clearer understanding of the rights people discuss—and dispute—every day. They’ll explore why the first ten amendments were added, what protections they establish, and how those protections remain relevant to modern debates.
Help your teen understand the Constitution as a set of debated ideas about rights and power, not simply a document to memorize. They’ll trace its historical roots, examine the Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments, and explore how amendments and court decisions shape its application.
Help your teen understand how a Supreme Court decision can change the boundaries of freedom for generations. They’ll examine ten consequential cases involving federal power and individual rights, tracing how legal precedents affect property, equality, religious liberty, and everyday life.
Help your teen connect the civics diagram to the people and pressures shaping actual government decisions. They’ll explore the influence of money, legislative aides, and behind-the-scenes relationships, learning to ask more informed questions about political power.
Empower your teen with a solid understanding of free market principles and how it helps everyone have the opportunity to prosper.
Help your teen answer the questions hiding in everyday life: why wages differ, prices change, and people benefit from trade. They’ll explore money, incentives, competition, and productivity, connecting economic ideas to decisions at the store, at work, and at home.
Every choice has a trade-off—help your teen learn to see it before deciding. They’ll use scarcity, opportunity cost, and specialization to examine personal decisions and larger challenges, discovering how cooperation can create opportunities that weren’t obvious before.
Help your teen look beyond an economic promise to ask what happens next—and who is affected. Through topics including inflation, minimum wage, price controls, and trade, they’ll examine incentives and unintended consequences from a free-market perspective.
Help your teen see the worldwide cooperation behind the goods, ideas, and opportunities they encounter every day. They’ll explore trade, cultural exchange, tariffs, and innovation, examining how connections across borders can create prosperity and how barriers can limit it.
Learn how to make informed decisions about saving, giving, and spending while navigating inflation. Develop habits for lifelong financial success!
Help your teen understand what investing involves before they’re faced with decisions about their own savings. They’ll explore investment fundamentals, inflation, and traditional and alternative options, building a foundation for evaluating choices with a longer-term perspective.
Help your teen become intentional about money before everyday spending habits take over. They’ll explore money’s history, saving, spending, sharing, earning, interest, and passive income, connecting financial choices to personal responsibility and independence.
Help your teen connect earning money with creating something other people value. They’ll explore in-demand skills, practical service businesses, résumés, interviews, and entrepreneurship, learning concrete ways to begin building their own opportunities.
Give your teen a practical introduction to the money decisions that come with greater independence. Through real-life scenarios covering budgeting, spending, saving, debt, insurance, and taxes, they’ll learn to weigh today’s choices against tomorrow’s needs.
Empower your teen to critically analyze information and situations, so they can navigate life's challenges with confidence and make well-informed choices.
Give your teen a practical starting point when a problem feels too big to tackle. They’ll learn to break challenges into manageable pieces, investigate root causes, brainstorm options, and test solutions using the Plan-Do-Check-Act approach.
Help your teen recognize the difference between an argument that sounds convincing and one that holds up. They’ll investigate faulty reasoning and mental shortcuts, learning to challenge misleading claims while checking their own assumptions too.
Help your teen pause before accepting or sharing a claim that seems convincing. They’ll examine misleading statistics, false narratives, and media bias, practicing evidence-based ways to separate reliable information from deception.
Show your teen how the thinking behind space missions can help them tackle challenges here on Earth. Through the decisions of engineers, astronauts, and support teams, they’ll explore ten strategies for evaluating information, solving problems, and explaining their reasoning.
Young people can do great things! With practical advice and inspiring success stories, these courses will help teens gain the skills and confidence to create their own businesses.
Help your teen move from “I have an idea” to understanding what it takes to make that idea work. They’ll explore business planning, pricing, budgeting, marketing, and teamwork, building a practical foundation for creating something customers value.
Could something your teen loves doing become something others would pay for? They’ll learn to research demand, test an idea, identify customers, and plan their marketing and time—while keeping school and other commitments in view.
Give your teen a look at entrepreneurship beyond the polished success story. Through interviews with real business owners, they’ll explore setbacks, creative problem-solving, and the persistence involved in turning an idea into something that serves others.
Help your teen start noticing problems they could solve instead of waiting for someone else to solve them. They’ll explore calculated risk-taking, customer feedback, mentorship, and resilience, learning how an entrepreneurial mindset turns observation into purposeful action.
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Economics Curriculum for Teens |
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The Tuttle Twins Academy is specifically designed for ages 12-18. The content uses engaging storytelling and real-world examples that resonate with teens while teaching complex economic and civic concepts. Younger students (ages 5-11) should start with our illustrated book series, which we can recommend based on your child's reading level.
We're transparent: we teach principles of liberty, free markets, and personal responsibility from a libertarian/classical liberal perspective. However, we focus on developing critical thinking skills—teaching students to question ALL authority (including us!) and form their own reasoned conclusions. We're not telling kids what to think; we're giving them tools to think for themselves. Many families appreciate that we don't pretend to be "neutral" while actually promoting other viewpoints.
The Academy works perfectly as a social studies/civics/economics curriculum component for homeschoolers. Lessons are self-paced, include discussion questions and activities, and cover topics many homeschool curricula skip. Many families use it for ages 12+ while using our illustrated books for younger children (ages 5-11).
Absolutely! Many families use the Academy to supplement traditional schooling, providing perspectives and topics their teens aren't getting elsewhere. It's perfect for after-school learning and creates great opportunities for family discussions about current events and real-world applications.
We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. That said, our story-based approach achieves 93% retention rates (vs. 13% for traditional textbooks), and most families report their teens actively asking for more lessons. We also offer a free first lesson so you can try before committing.
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Lifetime access is a one-time payment of $559 that gives you unlimited access forever to all current AND future courses we create. Annual access is $299/year and renews each year. If you plan to use the Academy for more than 2 years or have multiple teens, lifetime is the better value. Plus, all future courses we add are included free with lifetime access.
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