Day Five Challenge: "Your child comes home from school, having heard about the empty refrigerator in the story read at school. He looks at our bare refrigerator and asks if you are poor. How do you explain your finances to your child?"

Wow, this is a tough one. I think I would have preferred a five dollar cut to my budget versus having to explain this to my son.  Well, here it goes...

I think I would start the conversation by asking my son why the refrigerator in the story was empty and align my explanation to his response. I would explain to him that people who work for a living, make different salaries based on the type of job that they have. I would provide him with a variety of examples of low to high income types of jobs. I would then explain to him the importance of getting a good education so that he would get a good paying job in order to support himself and fill his refrigerator. I would end the conversation by telling my son how much I love him and that I would do what ever I could to ensure that his needs were met and that he was safe, happy and loved.

The "walk a mile in their shoes action against poverty challenge" has been a learning experience for me. It has been a real eye opener and has given me some insight as to what people living in this situation are faced with on a daily basis just to make ends meet. I encourage everyone reading my blog this evening to provide support to those less fortunate in any way that you can.

I'm super proud of the Valleyview Vipers who supported their admin team throughout the five day challenge. I'm also very proud of them for wearing red at school today and donating nonperishable food items for the Salvation Army food bank. Valiant effort Vipers!

Au revoir day five. Thank you for taking it easy on me today. Looking forward to treating myself tomorrow morning to a cup of coffee sweetened with Vanilla International Delight creamer.