I was in a third grade classroom today doing a lesson on saving and spending wisely. It’s a fun lesson because kids get to “buy” things with $25 that I “give” them. With third graders, it’s important to let them know that the money isn’t real, nor are the items they buy. I learned this the hard way last year. Part way through the lesson I allow the kids to choose to save their money, spend it on another item,…
I took Ryan with me to hot yoga yesterday. Nathan had gone a while back with my friend Rebecca and came back with stories about how he’d never sweat so much in all his life. Then I started going and found out that he was right. The heat, plus the difficulty of the poses made for a very intense 90 minutes. Ryan likes a good challenge and asked if he could give it a go. So yesterday we went. In…
I recently wrote about how Nathan was given the opportunity to sign up for some sort of membership on Amazon in order to save shipping costs on an item he had ordered. After I gave him permission I then showed him how to make sure he canceled the membership within the alloted time so that he would not get charged. (See blog entry: Keeping Good Records) What I missed in all of this was Ryan. Turns out, when going through my credit card…
Nathan was ordering something on Amazon not long ago and, in order to receive free shipping, he had the “opportunity” to sign up for a membership. I don’t remember what the membership was for but it, too, was free…for a month. He asked me if he could sign up for it because he wanted to save on shipping. Sure, I told him. But it would be his responsibility to make sure that he canceled the membership before the month was up….
Has your brain ever been so saturated with thoughts that you render it useless? That’s what happened to me when I saw a bumper sticker on a car that read, “She who dies with the most jewels wins.” It evoked so many emotions all I could clearly think was, Ahhhh. When that went away, my next thought was That is precisely the kind of attitude that contributed to all the dark stuff of 2009. If my kids had been with me,…