It was noon. It was time to turn off the Saturday morning cartoons. My eleven year old, Jonathan had plans for the afternoon though. He wanted to make some money. "Come on, Ginny, let's go rake leaves." So they left and started asking around if anyone wanted their yards raked. When they came to one yard my son asked the man. He said no. But then the man asked if he could give them a dollar. Jonathan thought the man might be feeling sorry for them so he wisely and politely gave this reply, "What's the fun of money if you can't earn it?" My two children then left.

They didn't make any money raking leaves that day but it didn't bother them anyway. I'm just glad for the attitude towards work that Jonathan had.