Nathan got his driver’s license two weeks ago. He thinks he’s a free man but what he doesn’t realize it that it’s me who’s really free. Not free from the worry when he’s out there on the road. Just from the many trips back and forth from all his many activities. But it made me think about his first set of wheels. Nathan had all the little trikes kids usually get as they’re learning the ways of the road….
Lauren got a raise. I was walking on campus of one of the school’s where I teach when she came running up to me just as excited as the time she told me about getting her first job. Lauren is in second grade. After doing a lesson on ways for kids to make extra money, she came to class the following week with a job to take the garbage bin down to the curb and bring it back up. She…
I picked Ryan up from his day at the mall with his friend, Cody. Ryan and his friends usually don’t hang out at the mall which is fine with me. I find that when I go to the mall I always discover things that I didn’t think I needed but all of a sudden have a desire to buy. I have pretty good self discipline and don’t often succumb to the temptations, but I can see where it would require a…
I was in Michael’s yesterday buying key charms for my money management lesson on the keys to compounding. With my 40% off coupon, of course. I was behind a mom who I felt increasingly sympathetic for. But not really because she allowed herself to be in the position she was in. The mom was there with her two daughters. They looked to be about 8- and 9-years old. The older one asked her mom if she could buy one of…