Do I Hold Him To It?

"Mommy, there is this toy that Kevin wants for his birthday but it's very espensive, and I told him we would get it for him."

"How expensive is it?"

"It's 100 dollars."

"Elan, I can't spend $100 on a present for one of your friends, honey."

"But he really wants it."

"Still."

"Well, maybe I will just buy it with my own money. I'm very rich."

"Are you?"

"Mm-hmm. I looked at my wallet and counted all of my moneys and I have, like, sixty of them."

"Wow. That's a lot. Well, if you're looking to make more money, maybe we can start something where you help me around the house and I can give you jobs, and if you do them well, I could pay you a little bit. Then you could save all of your money and buy something you want."

"Like what kinds of jobs?"

"Like cleaning up, helping me with Ariel -"

"-I KNOW! On the days Theresa doesn't come, I could clean our house!"

"Yeah, like that."

"...And then I'll make so much money, I'll have 100 dollars and I'll be very rich!"

"You know, being rich is nice, but it isn't the most important thing in the world."

"Well when you're rich, you have lots of poor people come to your house and you give them money all the time."

"You do?"

"Isn't that what rich people do?"

"I guess that's what some very good rich people do..."

"Well, I'm a really good person, so that's what I'll do when I'm rich."