The Berenstain Bears' Dollars and Sense

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
This is Believe, One Network, Every Topic, Everywhere.

**Philip** (0:07)
Okay, our friends, so today we are finishing this series about money.

**Lisa Bueno** (0:15)
This story is another Berenstein Bear's story. It's called Dollars and Cents.
And of course, these are written by Stan and Jan Berenstein, and we absolutely love them, and we cannot wait to dive right in.

**Philip** (0:27)
We have $20.

**Lisa Bueno** (0:29)
We're going to talk about money today, so buckle up, you guys. Today's story is read by Mommy, and...

**Philip** (0:37)
This story is read by Mommy, and...

**Philip** (0:40)
Oh, are you an echo?

**Philip** (0:45)
Oh, are you an echo?

**Philip** (0:48)
You are!

**Philip** (0:49)
You are!

**Philip** (0:50)
My name's Philip.

**Philip** (0:52)
My name's Philip.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:03)
Let's read.

**Philip** (1:04)
Yes, I'm ready to listen.

**Philip** (1:06)
Yes, I'm ready to listen.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:07)
Shh. Shh.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:13)
Found it. Okay. Cubs like their own money, their own dollars and cents, but to spend it or save it, what makes the most sense?
Oh, here we go. Money wasn't a big problem in the Bear family's tree house down the sunny dirt road and deep in Bear country, but it was a problem, at least where Cubs, brother and sister were concerned.

**Philip** (1:40)
They knew some things about money.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:42)
They knew that Papa wasn't made of it. They knew it didn't grow on trees, and they knew that they should save it for a rainy day.
Papa had told them those things many times. What they didn't know about money was how to manage it.

**Philip** (2:01)
You can't manage money.

**Philip** (2:03)
Money manages itself.

**Lisa Bueno** (2:05)
You think so?

**Philip** (2:07)
Yeah, I wonder about it.

**Philip** (2:09)
You better listen up, then.

**Philip** (2:12)
The Cubs liked money. They had liked it even before they knew you could buy things with it.

**Lisa Bueno** (2:19)
They liked coins better than paper money because you could do things with coins.

**Philip** (2:22)
They liked to roll them.

**Philip** (2:24)
They liked to spin them.

**Lisa Bueno** (2:25)
They liked to stack them.

**Philip** (2:27)
As they got a little older, they liked to play heads or tails with them.

**Lisa Bueno** (2:33)
Do you know what that is?
So on a coin, sometimes you'll find a head, like someone's silhouette or their profile, like a picture of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. Then if you flip it upside down, the other side of it, they call it tails because sometimes it has a bird on it or a building or something like that, and the opposite side of the head. So if it's got a head on it, it's the heads and if it's got the tails on it, it's the tails, and when you flip it up and down, you can call what you think it will be before it hits the ground. You take your coin, you can throw it up in the air and say, I think it's gonna be heads, and you have a 50% chance of being right because there's only two sides.

**Philip** (3:24)
Anyways, it is a lot of fun, but by keeping their eyes and ears open in the supermarket, in the hardware store, in the clothing store, they soon learned that you could do a lot more with money than just play with it.

**Philip** (3:39)
You could buy things with it.

**Lisa Bueno** (3:43)
And in the picture we see Mama Bear is with the kids at the grocers, and the lady who's doing the cash register says to her, that will be $7.50. And then in the next picture, Papa Bear is at the hardware store, and he's going to buy a new hammer.

**Philip** (4:01)
That will be $9.29.

**Lisa Bueno** (4:03)
And 20 cents, says the guy selling it to him.
And then they're over here buying some clothes. And the lady here says, that will be $11.10 for some sort of shirt or something like that. They're buying.

**Philip** (4:20)
You could buy all sorts of things.

**Lisa Bueno** (4:23)
Ice cream from the good humor bear.

**Philip** (4:27)
I'll have peach orange with jimmies.

**Philip** (4:31)
I'll have nutty chocolate cherry.

**Lisa Bueno** (4:34)
Say the kids as they run out to the ice cream man.
You could buy, let's see. Oh, in this picture, we can see what they're buying here. Rides on the bucking duck at the mall. It's like a little toy that you can sit on and it moves around. You ever see those?

**Philip** (4:52)
They're saying, hi-ho, duck!

**Lisa Bueno** (4:55)
And the duck is probably going back and forth, quack, quack, quack, quack.