(my piece for Mom Logic)

So I was minding my own business when my 4-year-old son came up to tell me that it was time he had a superhero action figure. My friends who have girls have been buying princess dolls and costumes for a while now (often reluctantly), so I knew the time would come. I figured this would be an opportunity to use the money in his frog bank — a combination of dollars slipped to him by family members and quarters from neighbors who “hire” him to water their plants or cats while they’re away.