Monthly Archives: August 2017

The art of negotiation and teaching kids financial responsibility.

The Negotiation: Apparently, if you are a kid born around the Chrismukkah wintertime holidays, half-birthdays are important. Josephine, my ten and a half year old daughter, brought this to my attention just last week as she accompanied me on a father-daughter walk two blocks from home in Curtis Park down to Gunther’s Ice Cream to enjoy a …

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Jobs: Like most American households, the Eschlemans are regularly on the go with various activities and responsibilities, and while busy, try to lead satisfying and fulfilling and lives. However, one of the consequences of this busy schedule is having only limited time to attend to normal household responsibilities, or, as they are more commonly known, …

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Payday: As is true with all of our schedules, life can and will get in the way of our jobs regularly enough, and it is rare (but not completely unprecedented) for Henry and Josephine to have a perfect week, but that is always the goal. And, to help them equate working harder with getting paid …

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Save, Spend, Donate OK. So Henry and Josephine now have the forum to earn, which logically then leads to the transition into the next lesson: what to do with it. This is a lesson many of us are still working to learn, and why Megan and I feel it is important to cultivate these skills …

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