Like many of their peers S and B are avid Game Boy players. I really resisted getting Game Boys at first but then reasoned that it's part of the pop culture for their generation. As long as they spend more time playing outside and reading than playing games I really have no problem with it.
For Christmas our family got a gift certificate to Amazon and, as "financial manager", I've been having fun deciding exactly how to spend it. It was easy to pick out a book for myself, but harder to decide what to get for the others.
S and B have been talking about a couple of games lately. Games which are fine for their age group, but which are just too expensive to save for with their measly, sporadic allowance. So I made an executive decision and ordered them, but it took up the rest of the certificate. There's really nothing that M wants right now and I figured he would agree to the purchase.
At dinner the kids were all excited about their games and I told them they should thank M because part of the money came from his portion of the gift certificate. They became quiet suddenly and looked at him with sad faces. He smiled and told them that he didn't mind.
But apparently it stuck with them. The the next day while M was working B crept up on silent feet and slipped him EUR 1.40 in coins from his piggy bank...
4 comments:
Now THOSE are well-bred boys!! You obviously raised them with love and compassion... which they can now turn around and bequeth upon others.
Carol
Oh wow that was so sweet of them.
Be proud that they are raised not taking everything just for granted!
Are you kidding me?? I thought kids that good only existed in movies, myth or storybook.
Keep on doing whatever you've been doing. :-)
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