The Cost · Question 7 of 26
Should you keep fixing your old bike, or buy the used one?
You've spent 30 dollars and three Saturdays fixing up your old bike. It still wobbles. At the shop there's a used bike that works fine, for 25 dollars.
What earns a point in this world: Names the thing given up by choosing the other side.
Keep fixing it!
Reasons a child might give
- I've already put 30 dollars into it. I can't stop now.
- It's nearly there. One more Saturday might do it.
- It's my bike. The one at the shop is somebody else's old bike.
Buy the used one!
Reasons a child might give
- That 30 dollars is gone whatever I do now.
- Three Saturdays and it still wobbles. That tells me something.
- I could be riding tomorrow instead of fixing again.
Debate this one against an opponent that argues back.
Your child picks a side. Quill takes the other and answers what they actually said, in words a seven-year-old can read. A room of 20 moves only for a reason — and the idea behind the story is named at the end, once the debate is over. Ages 5–12.
Start debating$2.90 for the first month, then $29.90/month. Cancel any time.