Emma has been the most excited of all the kids about growing her money seeds. Hers are doing the best, too. Her enthusiasm must be contagious, and her seeds have caught it. She has a nice seedling started and lots of little bitty seedlings.
She watered all the pots at first. Then the others complained that she was doing it, so I made her stop.
So she only watered hers, but the others didn’t water theirs, so now she has the best start. The others are starting to see some green seedlings, too.
I reminded them today that these growing seeds remind them that their money is growing in the bank, too.
They have tried to figure out how much 1% is, but it’s not all that encouraging, so I keep telling them they can add more money to their savings account, and it will grow more.
They have been looking for things to do around the house, but they are choosing prizes from the treasure box instead of earning money right now. So their savings accounts might not grow too fast until the treasure box is emptied out!
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
