実践ビジネス英語ディクテーション (3/17,18)

こんにちは。NHKラジオ「実践ビジネス英語」”Talk the Talk”のディクテーションです。
Lesson23のテーマは、‘Money Matters’（お金のこと）でした。Vignetteでは、子供に健全な金銭感覚を身につけさせることの重要性と難しさが話題になりました。"Money grows on trees."（お金は木になる）という印象を子供に与えないように、との忠告も。
“Talk the Talk”では、Heatherさんが実践したいと考えている、お金を使う・貯めるという概念を3つの瓶を使って子供に教える方法などを紹介されています。

Money Matters
（S: 杉田敏先生　H: Heather Howardさん）

S: Our current vignette discusses teaching children about money.
Did you ask your parents how much they make?

H: I didn’t ask that.
But I did ask once if we were middle class, and I’ve always liked my mother’s answer.
She said, “Class is a state of mind, not money. We are upper class. If you try to be a good person, and dedicated yourself to knowledge and understanding, you are upper class.”
But a while back I read about one father’s idea for helping children understand the concepts of spending and saving, and I think I’m going to follow in his footsteps.

S: What did he do?

H: Well, his little girl got a weekly allowance and he set up three jars to hold her money.
One was for spending, another was for saving and the third was for giving to charity.
When she wanted a toy or something at the store, he would say, “OK, when we get back home, we’ll check how much you have in your spending jar.”
That helped them avoid impulse purchases, and helped teach the little girl that money is a finite quantity.
She could use the money from her spending jar any way she liked, but once it was gone, she didn’t get any more until her next allowance rolled around.
And if she wanted something a bit more expensive, she had to wait until the spending jar contained that much.
This taught her about putting off immediate gratification in order to get something more valuable later on.

S: Very sensible. So, do you plan to give your daughter an allowance when she gets older?

H: Yes, and I plan to tie it to her doing certain chores; taking the trash out, washing the dishes....that sort of thing.
It’s important to understand that money comes from work; you don’t get it for nothing.
Though, I must admit, this vignette has made me nervous about my approach to the ATM machine at the bank.

S: What do you mean?

H: I’ve actually been letting my daughter push some of the buttons for me when I take out money.
I thought it was a fun way to help her practice numbers―“where’s the number seven, honey? Press the seven”―you know, that sort of thing.
But maybe I should make a point of telling her, “This is where Mommy’s work money goes.”

S: You’ve mentioned the summer jobs you’ve had in the past, including working at an ice cream store and how it made you appreciate how hard it was.

H: Absolutely. I’d recommend that every teenager do that kind of work at least a year.
Fast food and retail may seem like fun, breezy jobs, but they’re actually nothing of the kind.
Your feet may be aching, the customers may be rude, but you have to be helpful, cheerful and polite the whole time.
And you get blamed all the time for things that are not your fault.
Ever since I worked in those fields, I’ve tried not to make more work for their employees.
I went shopping with the boyfriend many years ago.
And after he tried on a jacket and decided he didn’t want it, he tossed it on top of the clothing rack.
Without even thinking I said, “Don’t do that! Hang it back up so the saleslady doesn’t have to.”

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