Teaching children about debt should happen as early as possible.
TechnoBoy borrowed twelve dollars from me to buy some baseball cards (a new passion here in the EP household) a few weeks ago. He’s not a boy with high ambitions when it comes to money. He rarely does any of the paid chore opportunities [...]

Isn’t very high really. There are so many things I can do:

listen to him describe the next gadget he’s going to invent
watch him leap off the ladder into the pool for the umpteenth time
have a good stock of freezer pops at the ready
wrestle him to the ground and give him a good tickling [...]

I lost my temper the other day. And not just a little.
I lost it COMPLETELY.
It all started when The Mercenary came in and started rifling through my desk drawers while I was sitting there. When I asked what he was doing, he explained that he was getting a permanent marker out to label [...]