I had a few more thoughts after thinking about this one for a bit. It's easy to laugh at the boneheaded mistakes, but can we say anything deeper about this? Th

I had a few more thoughts after thinking about this one for a bit. It's easy to laugh at the boneheaded mistakes, but can we say anything deeper about this? The author's actions seem to be motivated by an almost childish level of over-enthusiasm. That the word childish occurs to me makes me wonder - are we making it too difficult for kids to try things? Not actually opening a restaurant, of course, but something moderately ambitions for their age. Big enough for them to fail badly at when they're insanely, blindly hopeful about it. It would be good in a way to experience that sort of failure at an age and life situation where you don't destroy your finances when you're 3/4 to retirement and with kids of your own to send to college. Maybe if he had experienced that, then he could chase after his next dream with a little more realism and self-control and a little less blind optimism.