Originally posted by cincygreg:
I think it's great for kids to ask some questions and to know about what they are getting or buying and why it is the way it is.
Always a good thing to see the kids at the grocery store pointing out the sale items for their parents/guardians. Knowing what the no-fat and low-fat means on the packages. Where certain foods come from and esecially mt little ditty about how the loaf of bread. (you know how it starts with the farmer goes to the baker goes into packaging, gets trucked to the store where they finally sell it to you).
It's amazing to see little kids knowing the value of a dollar. What a great lesseon. Knowing that saving a little can add up to a lot, and the more they do to help their parents/guardians save, the better chance there is that they can do the fun stuff that comes to town or comes up on the calender [img]wink.gif[/img] . Plus it encourages them to save their pennies and how sometimes you have to give up one thing to get another.
I dont have any offsping of my own, but I like kids and think it's great when I see the kids having conversations about stuff when they are in the shopping carts, or siting down for lunch at a restaurant or even shopping for clothes. At the zoo seeing them read the markers in front of each animal to see what it is and where it came from.
Kids pick things up and it makes them smarter. The easiest way to stop the dumbing of America is not to stop haivng fun wioth your kids, it's to have more fun with your kids. Do the stuff together. When you get home from the zoo or aquarium, look up soime stuff or get a book on one of the critters that they liked or seemed interested in. And take the time to be silly with them. Do the goofy stuff.
Be a parent, a teacher and most of all, be a part of the fun.
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