I was going through my binder of story ideas for my monthly Kidnexions Connection newsletter and found a post-it with a story about Nathan.\u00a0 It’s a good thing I took the time to write\u00a0the story\u00a0down because I had forgotten all about it.\u00a0 So here’s the first in a series I’m calling ‘Flashback’ as I remember or find things my kids did when they were growing up that relates to learning about money.<\/p>\n
Sometimes we adults use vocabulary words that don’t always make sense to kids.\u00a0 It’s hard to do it any other way, though, \u00a0since kids\u00a0 arrive on this planet with little understanding of any words.<\/p>\n
But as our kids get older it’s easy to forget that something that makes perfect sense to us makes absolutely no sense to them.\u00a0 Take the words ‘bounced checks’.\u00a0 It’s been quite a while since I’ve bounced a check, and\u00a0that happened\u00a0because a roommate of mine handed me her rent check without the funds to back it up.\u00a0\u00a0 My VERY FIRST mortgage payment in my entire life bounced because of that.\u00a0 Lesson learned:\u00a0 just because someone has a full-time job doesn’t mean they have any rent money.\u00a0 And there’s a reason people collect first and last month’s rent.<\/p>\n
But back to Nathan.\u00a0 I’m not sure what the context was, but apparently I had used the words ‘bounced check’ while he was listening.\u00a0 It was probably something like, “I can’t believe my VERY FIRST mortgage\u00a0check bounced because she didn’t have the money to pay for rent and never told me…”\u00a0 But whatever it was, he realized that bouncing checks was not a very smart thing to do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Apparently he’d been giving this some thought because he finally came up to me and asked,\u00a0 “Is it okay to bend checks?”\u00a0 (He does know what checks are.)\u00a0 And honestly, I had no idea what he was talking about until he told me that he heard me say that bouncing checks was a bad idea.\u00a0 It made me wonder what visuals went through his head when he thought of checks bouncing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was going through my binder of story ideas for my monthly Kidnexions Connection newsletter and found a post-it with a story about Nathan.\u00a0 It’s a good thing I took the time to write\u00a0the story\u00a0down because I had forgotten all about it.\u00a0 So here’s the first in a series I’m calling ‘Flashback’ as I remember or find things my kids did when they were growing up that relates to learning about money. Sometimes we adults use vocabulary words that don’t…<\/p>\n