New Adventures in Hi-Fi(nance)

Today was the big day! We have given our children jobs to do for which we are paying commissions (thank you, Angela, for being the only respondent to our request for job ideas). We have also given them a very short list of thngs that they are not to do, for which they will be fined. And we got to experience the joy and pain of both right on the first day. It was amazing and heart-warming to see them eagerly do their jobs with a happy heart. It was crushing and heart-breaking to have to watch as one child had to open their commission jar, extract some of the money they'd worked for, and pay a fine for doing something they aren't supposed to do. I'm excited about teaching them smart money management so that it gets into their hearts at a young age, but it was really rough to have to impose the fine. Still, this is an adventure, and every adventure that I know of involves making some bad decisions and learning from the ensuing pain, so that the adventure will end with joy and, ideally, prosperity. And so it begins...