I don’t know about you, but lately I’ve witnessed too many people not caring about their jobs and not making an effort to even try. Just the other day, I stepped up to the cashier in a local store to pay for something and I was greeted, or should I say not greeted, by the most unfriendly…
The other day I was talking to a friend of mine about her son and asked how he is doing in school. She sadly told me that he was actually having some trouble with the other kids. They weren’t causing any harm to the boy, but the problem was stemming from how he felt being…
At my son’s pre-school, the children recently participated in the “Great Kindness Challenge.” As part of the challenge, the center had a book drive to collect books for needy children in our area. The school also created a beautiful Giving Tree to which teachers added apples with acts of kindness written on them. I can’t…
One afternoon, I came home from work, and my son, who was five years old at the time, was in his room with coins all over his floor and dollar bills crunched up in little balls. He told me he decided to open up his piggy bank and take out all of his money. As…
I recently had an eye-opening conversation with my son. Sometimes as parents we don’t realize that the simplest of concepts to us are often the most confusing to our kids. Take the idea of borrowing money. When I tried to explain to him what it means to borrow money, he just looked at me with a…
Each morning, my husband and I get up to go to work and my two boys are very much acquainted with the routine. They don’t think twice about the fact that we work to buy food, pay for our home and most importantly buy toys. Of course there is the occasional groan when mommy or…