Give Kids Choices

 

"Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

 

Since we're talking about children, Buck and Jeeta are friends who taught their son Todd valuable lessons about money by giving him simple, meaningful choices. When they went out to eat as a family and the waiter asked for their drink order, they asked Todd, "Do you want a Coke, or do you want a dollar?"

Jeeta told me, "Todd's pretty smart. He picked the dollar every time."

Buck and Jeeta found a teachable moment, and they used it over and over again to show their son that simple choices make a difference.