Parenting

Playing For Blood

Kris at Every Tips and Thoughts wrote a post about games and letting her kids win feeling bad about winning. I disagree. This post is an expansion of my comment there. When we play games in my house, we play for blood. I’ve never let my kids win and they know it. From the first time…

Family Bed: How to Make It Stop

For years, my kids shared my bed. When my oldest was a baby, I was working a graveyard shift, so my wife was alone with the baby at night. It was easy to keep a couple of bottles in a cooler by the bed and not have to get out of bed to take…

Should Pupils Focus on Personal Finance?

When I was younger, my dad was always trying to teach me the value of money but he never really succeeded and it took a series of monetary mishaps before I even started to learn any of the lessons that he had been trying to teach me!   Once I realized that I had been…

What’s in it for me?

Lately my son has been in full-on greed mode. It seems like every time I talk to him he asks me to give him something buy him something, do something. “Dad, can you buy me a Yu-Gi-Oh card?” “Dad, can you buy me a videogame?” “Dad, can I get this?” “Dad, can I get that?”…