For parents, guardians, teachers and mentors
Race Control
The goal is supported independence — not unsupervised risk.
For Parents & GuardiansBook page 61
A motivated teen can build real skills, useful projects, and even early income. The adult role is not to take over the project. It is to create guardrails around money, contracts, privacy, travel, online contact, intellectual property, taxes, and wellbeing.
Book page 61, word for word.
This site is the tools half of that book. It keeps no accounts, asks for no email address, and sends nothing anywhere — a reader's work is kept in their own browser and printed, not stored by us. The verifiable version of that claim, written for a school IT reviewer, is on the schools privacy page.
What this book means by rich
Not money on its own. The last chapter defines wealth as six things, scored separately: skills, health, time, people, money and impact. The build for it is a one-page dashboard with all six on it. That is the book's own answer to the thing most adults worry about here — a plan that pushes one number up while five go down is not a good plan — and a reader meets it as the point of the whole book rather than as a warning from a parent.
The Real Rich Scoreboard is where they score the six from one to ten and pick one action for the lowest area. It prints, and the answers copy out as plain text.
Chapter 15, book page 54.
The family approval system
Three levels, no fourth. The book suggests it on page 61; this site uses it as its main piece of interface, so the flag on a build card and the flag in this table mean exactly the same thing.
- Green · go
Green decisions are low-cost and reversible.
Go. No check-in needed. Most of the 19 builds live here: writing something down, making a first version, practicing a skill, sorting last week's spending.
- Yellow · check in with an adult first
Yellow decisions involve public posting, small spending, or contact with new people and require a check-in.
A conversation before it happens, not a veto. This is where the site expects the most friction, and where a two-minute look at the post or the message does most of the work.
- Red · an adult must be involved
Red decisions involve contracts, financial products, travel, identity documents, large payments, or in-person meetings and require direct adult involvement.
You are in the room. The account, the signature and the payment route are yours, not theirs — including where a platform's own terms require it.
There is no chequered flag on this site. Chequered means the session is over, which is the wrong idea for a plan measured in months.
Useful questions are more powerful than instant answers
That sentence is the book's, and so are the six questions under it. They are worth more than a yes or a no, because they are answerable by the person doing the work.
- What problem are you solving?
- What proof do you have?
- Who could be harmed?
- What does the platform allow?
- What happens if the client is unhappy?
- How will school, sleep, and family time be protected?
Printed page 61, in the book's order and wording.
Praise the evidence
Praise evidence and learning, not only money or attention. The healthiest outcome is a young person who can think clearly, ask for help, recover from mistakes, and build without tying their worth to results.
Book page 61, word for word.
Reality Check
A simple family rule
No secrecy around money, meetings, identity documents, or pressure. A legitimate opportunity can survive an adult review and a night of sleep.
The safety layer, in one place
There are 19 Reality Checks in the book — the paragraphs that say what could actually go wrong. All 19 are on this site in full, grouped by risk, and printable for a class or a kitchen wall.
If your teen does not want to read it
Common, and there is no technique on this page for changing it. There is also nothing here that depends on it. Nothing is sequential and nothing is locked: no chapter has to be read before another one works, no build waits for the build before it, and starting in the middle costs a reader nothing.
So the useful thing is not a reading plan. It is a single page that makes sense on its own, with nothing read first. There are two:
- Scam Check — not built yet. When it is, they paste the actual thing: the "job", the offer in the DMs, the message that felt off, and it comes back with a flag, which red flags matched, and the page of the book that covers it. The page is already up and shows exactly what it will ask for and give back. Nothing pasted into it will ever be stored.
- The Real Rich Scoreboard — six scores out of ten and one action for the lowest one. It takes a few minutes, it needs no context from the book, and it is the argument above in one sheet.
The book works the same way. If it is open on the table, type the page number into the field on the home page and this site opens the tool for that page. No chapter first, no order, no starting point.
This part is for the reader, not the adult
If there is nobody to ask
The whole system above assumes an adult who is around, awake, and willing. That is not everyone's house. If it is not yours, the honest answer is not "do it anyway" and it is not "stop".
An adult here means any of these:
- A parent or guardian
- A teacher, or a school counselor
- A coach or club leader
- A librarian
- A youth worker
- A brother or sister over 18
A teacher, a coach, a librarian or a youth worker is not a second-best version of a parent for this. For questions about platform rules, contracts or whether an offer is real, several of them are better placed than most parents are.
If a build needs an adult and there is nobody yet, do the part that does not need one and write down the part you could not do. That note is the receipt. Nothing on this site is locked, timed, or waiting for permission — the only thing that waits for an adult is a yellow or red decision, and those genuinely need one.
And going around the gate is the failure, not the clever move. If the adult you ask says no, that is information about timing — about this offer, this week, this amount of money. It is not information about you.
The agreement, on one sheet
Worth doing before anything is at stake rather than in the middle of it. Print this, fill it in together, and put it where you will both see it. It takes about ten minutes and it settles the arguments you would otherwise have one at a time.
Nothing here is stored, sent or read by us — there is no form on this page. It is a sheet of paper, and that is the point of it.
Use your browser's print command — File, then Print. You get the sheet, and nothing else from this page.
Our agreement
Between and , dated
- Green is yours. Low-cost, reversible things — writing, making, practising, a first version nobody sees — need nobody's permission and no announcement.
- Yellow gets said out loud first. Posting publicly, spending a little, talking to someone new. A conversation before, not a report after.We will check in by:
- Red happens together. Contracts, money moving, identity documents, travelling, meeting anyone in person. The adult is on the account and on the signature.
- No secrecy around money, meetings, identity documents, or pressure. A legitimate opportunity can survive an adult review and a night of sleep.
- Bringing something worrying is never punished. Not the message, not the mistake, not the money already sent. The only thing that makes any of those worse is finding out late.The adult I will tell first:
- We look at the evidence, not the mood. The question is what exists now that did not exist last week — not how motivated anyone feels about it.
- One rule we are adding ourselves:
Signed and
The green/yellow/red rule is printed in Teen & Grow Rich, book page 61. Everything else on this sheet is this site putting it into practice.