By Lisa Buie, Times Staff Writer
Saturday, December 18, 2010
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Dylan Wood, 4, picks out toys for a needy 3-year-old boy. He and his pals at Kids’ Stuff Preschool raised $1,000 to buy gifts.
My 4-year-old was determined.
"I need to bring money to school," Dylan insisted out of the blue last month. "Miss Isabel needs money. She needs lots of money for the needy children."
After buying a Thanksgiving dinner and groceries for Metropolitan Ministries, filling a couple of shoe boxes with Christmas gifts for kids in war-torn countries and keeping up with all our regular nonprofit donations, I could feel charity fatigue and budget stress setting in.
I gave him a few coins. He frowned.
"Miss Isabel wants dollars."
Okay, kid. But if you want folding money, you're going to have to earn it, I said. And putting on your own clothes and brushing your teeth ...
