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…
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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?”…
Negotiating Superstar
Recently my son asked me for some money. This isn’t rare. He asks me for money on a regular basis. He’s kind of greedy some days. This time, however, he asked what he can do to earn some money. Now, since I live in Minnesota and have the dog and we had the sixth snowiest…
