With absolute seriousness, Ryan glanced up from the kitchen table and wanted to know what ‘red ink’ they were talking about. After all, he said, he has only ever seen the morning paper covered in black ink. On his quest to find the comic section this morning Ryan stumbled across the title of an article on the front page, The Red Ink Flows, from which came his query. Even if he had read the words that followed…deficit could hit $21.3 billion… it…
“Uh oh,” said Gabby after tallying the Are You More of a Savor or a Spender? questions during my 5/6 money class yesterday. She had answered every single spending question with a ‘yes’ which translated to: she liked to spend. Hanging at the mall, well that was paradise. And she’s only 10 years old. A lot of parents don’t realize the potential problem in their kids’ spending habits because, hey, they’re just kids and what kid doesn’t like to…
Ryan just called me from school. Apparently he left his grade check sheet at home this morning and needs it in order to try out for the track team this afternoon. Hmmm. Not wanting him to miss out on being on the team but wanting him to be responsible for forgetting, I asked if today was the only day for tryouts. No, he could try out tomorrow. That made my life so much easier. He’ll be taking the bus home…
It’s funny how some things just work out and you’re not even aware that it’s happening. That’s the way it was with my new kitchen table and teaching lessons in my money management class. It wasn’t even supposed to be my new kitchen table. It was supposed to be my new office desk. Desk-hunting one Sunday afternoon, John and I ended up at Crate and Barrel. While browsing for office furniture we happened by an awesome kitchen table, the kind…
Every Monday I pop $5 into a special pocket of both my boys’ backpacks. The money is to cover two days of eating lunch in the school cafeteria. They could pick any two days but need to let me know in advance because, yes it’s true, I still pack their bag lunches on non-cafeteria days. One Monday I noticed that there were two dollar bills in Ryan’s special pocket. If there had been two dollars and fifty cents I wouldn’t…