Dad tries to teach kids to want less

“Because I Said So” column for The Commercial Appeal

April 2, 2009

I did two things last weekend: I sat in on a session of the Enterprise Leadership Academy focusing on finance at Big Brothers Big Sisters, and I visited the Costco on Germantown Parkway.

I’m here to tell you, the economy will be fine. I base this knowledge on the young people I saw absorbing what local professionals had to teach them about the basics of finance and budgeting at BBBS, and on the ravenous consumption of goods at Costco.

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