Kids and Money and Keeping Our Word

‘Riches, my boy, don’t consist in having things but in not having to do something you don’t want to do, and don’t you forget it. Riches is being able to thumb your nose.’ – Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey I was at a business...

‘You are so like your mother / father!’

How do you feel when somebody makes that comment? Do you squirm or smile? Do you feel as if you’ve been criticised or as if you’ve received a compliment? For the moment let’s not get distracted by the ‘facts’ regarding how upstanding and admirable or how despicable...