My daughter has been in Washington D.C. this week. No, she’s not helping with the bailout (although I think a team of 6th graders might be able to brainstorm more effectively). I explained the stock market to her before she left, translating an article in the Washington Post. She blinked and said: “that sounds like gambling, Mom”. Yea.
Anyway, she’s on a child leadership program which is very exciting but for the first two days, she couldn’t call me. Misunderstandings with the calling card access (yes, believe it or not, my 10 year old does not own a cell phone). Even though I knew this was Mercury poking at me, I had to do a lot of deep breathing and Reiki.
Television is also the domain of Mercury (with Uranus- more on that next post). Last night we find out she hasn’t been sleeping well because one kid in her room insists on sleeping with the TV on! (I hope it’s not tuned in to Capitol Hill). Fortunately, the facilitator put the kibosh on that…. she asked me to send her Reiki last night and hopefully experienced sweet dreams.
But my Mercury woes are nothing compared to the U.S. financial turmoil and the presidential candidate standoff.
I hope that your 10-yr old paid attention to your economics/finance lesson.
Back in 2002 I was substitute teaching 7th grade Social Studies. In the course of covering the material I talked about oil, explaining that if the price of oil went up dramatically that it would be harder for Mom and Dad to drive wherever they wanted. Prices would go up for food and clothes as well as gasoline. There would be less money to spend at the mall because more and more income would be used for basics. Mom or Dad might even lose their job.
I had one particularly difficult teen girl in that class. She should have graduated last year so is either in college or working. I wonder if she remembers that lecture now. Even if she doesn’t, she is certainly learning the lesson by experience. Sorry but I take a certain pleasure at that thought. ,