Category: Children and Money

This past weekend my family said “Goodbye to Summer” and “Hello to Fall” (Not just because we turned on the heat for the first time either). In what is becoming a yearly family tradition we took a hiking trip in a...

Woo-Hoo!  Football has finally started! Better yet I got to watch my favorite team, The Washington Redskins, on TV(This is a big deal when you live in the middle of nowhere and you only have three channels).    But let ye...

You’ll get 5 bonus points if you remember that one of the first posts that I wrote for The Happy Rock was about daycare. Back then daycare was costing us about $950 a month. So its no wonder why I wrote...

16 year old Bryce Harper has chosen to forgo the last two years of high school in order to get his GED and enter the Major League Baseball draft.  Harper, sometimes called baseball’s Lebron James, is bigger, stronger, and better than...

I just got back from picking up my two boys, age 16 months and 3 1/2 years, from pre-school.   It was their first day.  After years of in-home single sitter care both boys were ready for something else.  The youngest is...

Grandparents are great aren’t they? I don’t know about you, but I have very fond memories of my grandparents.  There’s the trips to the zoo, baseball games, & museums.  I remember having lots of sleepovers with great food and a never...

Have you been to a library lately? For those of you who were scared off by the Dewey Decimal System, it’s time for a visit.  You might not recognize the place. The card catalog is long gone, it’s been replaced with banks of computers.  The...

Below is a post describing a fun frugal experience from my childhood written by The Happy Boulderette(The Happy Rock’s Mom).  The story itself is neat, but what makes it even more interesting is the striking similarity it has to a post...

The Happy Pebble(age 3) couldn’t contain his excitement as we pumped up a 3 foot long ‘rocket’ balloon and watched it sputter around the room. For him it was the joyous culmination of a life money lesson that he didn’t even...

A Happy Rock reader shared this story with me and I loved the images so much and thought the readers would too. ———————————— The scene was a ‘girls night out’ were the girls of the family went out to run errands...