{"id":27225,"date":"2017-07-27T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=27225"},"modified":"2017-07-27T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:01:42","slug":"kids-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/kids-and-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids and Money: A Six-Year-Old Learns the Art of the Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kids and money. Six-year-old Peter had his eyes on the folding stuff. It didn’t take him long to figure out how to get some of it. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Some kids dream of growing up to be an astronaut, a veterinarian\u00a0or a rock star.\u00a0But others keep\u00a0their eyes firmly on the bottom line\u00a0— on the money.<\/p>\n

Our son Peter was one of the latter. He\u00a0informed us — at the ripe age of six — that he was ready to start getting\u00a0an allowance and that, no, 50 cents or even 75 cents would not suffice. Peter wanted the big bucks, the folding stuff.<\/p>\n

When Peter was a little guy, I wrote a story for the Oakland Tribune about how the kids and money issue played out in our family. The story of how Peter plied the art of the deal\u00a0is now posted on my website. You can find it at\u00a0“A Case of the Human Condition: When Your Six-Year-Old Wants to Talk Money.”<\/a><\/p>\n

You should be able to find that story now … a typo in the coding sent readers to a “It’s Not Here Anymore” page. Sorry!<\/p>\n

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Some kids dream of growing up to be an astronaut, a vet or a rock star. Our kid had his eyes on the bottom line — on the folding stuff.\u00a0Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1955,1956,1957,151,1958,1959,55,56,1960,1961,1962,1863],"class_list":["post-27225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","tag-deal-making","tag-greed","tag-greedy-kids","tag-kids-and-money","tag-kids-career-dreams","tag-money","tag-family-stories","tag-peter","tag-teaching-kids-about-money","tag-teaching-kids-values","tag-the-art-of-the-deal","tag-work-ethic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}