4-Year-Old Economics

15Dec08

Finn is addicted to catalogues.  He’ll sit with one for close to 45 minutes, pouring over the pictures. When I step outside to fetch the mail, he calls out before I’m even fully back inside, “You have new catalogue for me?”

I don’t mind so much, and I’m completely spellbound by his ability to figure out what a new toy is and how it works simply by observing a diagram. He is absolutely spatially gifted, and it’s sort of a marvel to watch.

But he has also caught on to value.  He asked recently, “How many dollars this cost?” pointing to, say, a glow-in-the-dark-motorized marble run.

“A lot,” I answered.

“I get it for Christmas, then,” he concluded. “It cost a lot of dollars, Santa bring it.  It cost one or two dollars, we just get it now!”

I think he must be living in a different family from the rest of us.

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