Our son Hunter has taken a recent interest in Tae Kwon Do ever since being in a week long TKD camp over the summer. He's been asking since then to take lessons and begin the trek towards black belt. We've shared with him that the cost of classes is more than what our budget allows for right now, so he would need to find a way to contribute to the cost.
His allowance alone would not be enough, he already knew that. So he began thinking of other ways to finance the class. One day at the dollar store he was looking at candy and came across the M&Ms. Reading one of the wrappers, he saw that he could win $100,000 if he got the M&M package with all brown candy in it. He asked if we could buy him the bag of candy so that he could win the money, pay for Tae Kwon Do lessons, and get a whole bunch of other things, too. We gave the typical parent answer of, "No, these contests are just made to get you to spend your money and the chances of you winning are one in a million." A few days later, however, I started thinking...
Why not let him try? So we set up the "M&M Challenge". Hunter will buy (with his money) one pack of M&M candy every week to see if he is a winner. The stipulations are that he cannot eat all of the candy himself (he needs to share it with others) and he has to write about it on his blog. You can follow it here http://readhardstudyhard.blogspot.com/ Rather than shoot down his dreams, we are going to let him go for it and present him with a learning opportunity--win or lose.
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