While parents should take the lead, there’s a grandmother in Chicago who started a family tradition worthy of copying, particularly for parents of smaller children. Every year on the birthdays of her three grandchildren, Dana Treister handed each of them a dollar for every year they’d been alive. Then, she took them to a dollar store so they could pick out gifts for themselves. With a small pile of dollars, everything in a true, old-fashioned dollar store is, by definition, affordable. So figuring out what to buy becomes a great way to test how well your children are absorbing the lessons
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