Hello people with kids! This topic is for you. Want to teach your child real life lessons, or perhaps some math? Want your kids to not have a huge mess or too much junk they never use? Heres the plan! Everything has certain factors to take into an account: 1. Weight: Will it be as light as a feather or is it 40 pounds? 2. Size: Is the item in question the size of a pencil or a table? 3. Price: Something from the dollar store or a WiiU for $300? 4. Uses: Is it a 1 time use item which will be gone like a box of Barbie Bandaids, or something that will be stuck with you forever like a doll? 5. Value: Is this item going to be played with for 1 week and stuffed in a drawer or does it have what it takes to be something to stay with them for a long time. 6. Needs: If it comes down to them actually wanting to buy food or clothes which theyll eat / try or continuously wear for awhile, you could make them a lot cheaper. THE GAME: Basically, your child must sell you the item they own for these points or dollars to later spend for what they want. (Perhaps they will learn to be salesmen themselves to try and sell you the item higher than youd say it costs!) Depending on the item in question, they may need to get rid of 50 things, or just 1 thing will suffice... RULE: They can get the item in question with the right number of points / Dollars. Something big, heavy, expensive and relatively useless will have a large point value, over something which would be a one time use, small, useful, and light. Just for Fun for the Math Fans! --Will you make everything even like this? W(Weight) + S(Size) + P(Price) + U(Uses) + V(Value) + N = $$ --For minimalism and being responsible, I would have to say the size and weight would have to account for much more in the equation as well as the overall value... If it can be used up, it will account for less...So mine would look more like.... 3(W+S) + P + 2V - U - 4N = $$ So lets look at examples... EX1. A coloring book with pencils, and a Nintendo 3DS: They are both roughly the same size and weight, but no where near the same prize. The coloring book might be worth 4 things while the 3DS might be 30 or more. Really it depends on what they are selling to you though. EX2. Pack of Blues Clues Bandaids and a blanket: Both items are definitely useable/ useful. The Bandaids are limited to one time uses while the blanket will be used throughout the year on cold nights. Both may be cheaper in point value. So what does the child and you get out of all this? (Age pending) 1. The child will become more responsible with what they are buying. Give it a time or two where the child wants something bad, turns it in and a week later decides they dont want it and tries to sell it back to you and finds out it devalued. They may be mad and rebel, but they will learn its life, and make wiser decisions! 2. Math: This is also getting the child to look at prices and actually get a grasp of this number actually meaning something to them and not just your wallet. This also can branch off into Weight, Geometry, Mass, numbers and more. 3. Minimalism: This does also keep away the clutter of things in your home that is meaningless to even your child. You may be surprised what they give you which you thought they liked, but they grew tired of. This also helps if one ever has to move or if a disaster happened. 4. Ecological Foot print: For the advance of course, but this shows how much they actually have, and what around them is meaningful. 5. Decision making: They have the option and freedom in the regards of their items.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 01:34:40 +0000
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