Make your Instagram feed and your kids Instagram feed teach them not just entertain them

So here we are 2025 and yes, we all are deep in social media. It consumes us with mind-numbing scrolling and entertains us for far longer than we want to admit. However, if you can look at social media with a bright eye or a time suck eye, we are in it so we need to find ways to get the most from it. 

We all look at different things. If I look at my husband’s feed, his algorithm gives him funny footage of golfers, offloading trucks, and things that really just never popped up in my feed. Same with my daughters, from Kardashian looks to the biggest fashion trends, and how to do your makeup just right, we are all looking at different things based on our algorithm

So let’s hack that a little bit. I’m not saying don’t ever look at the funny random things, but what I am saying is make sure your feed, as well as your kids' feed, have educational, inspirational, and financial tips that everyone can benefit from. 

If you look at my feed, I’ve got lots of gardening hacks that come up as well as tons of financial literacy as well as trending AI hacks. 

For my kids, what I would like to do to set them on the right track is just make them follow five of these influencers that can help them gear their day to the right mindset. 

Being that my daughter‘s range from 21 down to 12, I personally believe that it’s never too young to get your kids mindset on how to financially spend their money to benefit them the most. Teaching about how compound interest works, and how little investments can pay off is my first and foremost Instagram and social media hack that I wanna make sure that in our family we are all following.

I think way too much of social media is based on selling you something. Whether you see it or not each one of those influencers is making money on what you’re clicking on. That cute dress that they linked yep, they get a profit. 

I would much rather see how someone invested five dollars of their Starbucks daily allotment and made that money grow over the course of a year and make sure my girl see that as well. It’s these little bits of money that they are wasting as they see that everyone else on Instagram is going to Starbucks or buying the thing. I wanna teach them that it’s way cooler to invest our money now and not get sucked into that lifestyle creep, and that overspending that really no one should be doing.

Here are some of the Instagram accounts that I am making them add so that it can populate other fees in their algorithm. These all are great folloows that teach financial tips and tricks:

• 5 AM secrets 

• Mr. money mustache 

• Richhabitspodcast

• Heyrachelcoons

• Addison.jarman

• Avayuergens

So there you have it, easy ways to learn something while scrolling your social media feed. As a parent, I get so annoyed with social media; however, I know it’s not going away. The key just like anything, is learning tools to keep you focused and on track even when doing things like scrolling. Help your kids include something that isn't making them compare themselves to others, something that isn't making them want to buy now, just something that puts a little "huh, thats crazy" in their mind when they learn a new life hack that will set them up for the future. In my experience, when your dealing with teens, that 20 second clip might just sink in rather than an hour lecture that you wanted to give.

I might’ve been there, and I do know that.

Xo,

Mama