I learned how to do it in high school. I learned the lessons of not doing it in college. Lol.
Lol!
I learned how to balance a checkbook when I was 14 going on 15. At 16 the folks would leave signed blank checks at the house for me to use paying the farm bills. I would write a check and that checkbook had darned well better be balanced by supper time.
By 17 I was handling all the money for the farm. My parents would check it every so often and Woe Be Upon my young butt if one penny was unaccounted for.