Yesterday I took my 8-year-old daughter, Sagey, on a casting call for a DKNY ad. The reason the casting agency called me is a long and boring story, so I’ll skip that and fast forward right to the bragging.
As we were driving, I chatted with Sagey about her day at school. Then I told her what DKNY was all about, and that if she got the job, the ad would be shot in New York. So we would travel there as a family for the job, and she would earn a thousand dollars for her work.
“A THOUSAND DOLLARS?!” she exclaimed. “I would earn a thousand dollars?!” she squealed again.
“Yes,” I smiled. “A thousand dollars. Just for you. Well, that is, after you pay for the gas to drive to New York, the hotel, the food we eat and, let’s see, what else?” I teased.
“Oh, no, I’m not gonna pay for all that, Momma!” she giggled.
“But that’s the “˜net’ of what you’d make. Do you know what net means?” I asked.
“Yes, Mom,” she groaned. “It’s the profit. You subtract the expenses from the gross pay, and that’s the net.”
(I didn’t fully understand net and gross until well into my 20s.)
“But, Wow!” Sagey continued. “A thousand dollars is even more money than Madison (her 14-year-old sister) has! I’m going to have so much money. And I think I’ll give some to Phoenix (her 5-year-old brother).”
I just about melted hearing these words as I pulled into a parking spot right in front of the agency.
“Do you think you’ll give any of the money to Madison?” I asked.
“No way!” she laughed. “Why not?” I asked. “Because she already has a lot of money. And she gets more allowance than me, and she makes money teaching yoga every week.”
“True,” I smiled.
“But poor Phoenix,” she continued, “only has two dollars. He doesn’t really know what that means, but I still want him to be abundant like the rest of us. And whatever I give comes back to me multiplied, Momma. You know that!”
Touché.
Have the best day ever!
Namaste!
Taylor plus 5
Taylor Wells, M.A., M.Ed., RYT, owns Prana Power Yoga, Inc., Super-mom.com and Prana Super-mom Consulting. She is also a Boston Herald columnist and blogger, United Nations Yoga Peace Ambassador, activist,and happy Super-mom of 5 kids. She is the author of the “Best Life Ever” blog at Vitacost.com.