Kids and money
pionerlife
I am curious what everyone does when their children ask for something
to be bought- say a toy, video game, book, candy, etc. Do you go ahead
and buy it? Do you give them a set amount of money each week to spend?
If they help out around the house without asking do they earn money
that way? Confused about how to handle this one.
Thanks!
to be bought- say a toy, video game, book, candy, etc. Do you go ahead
and buy it? Do you give them a set amount of money each week to spend?
If they help out around the house without asking do they earn money
that way? Confused about how to handle this one.
Thanks!
ENSEMBLE S-WAYNFORTH
Simon and Linnaea get a weekly allowance of Linnaea's age in pounds. So now it is 7 pounds a week. But that doesn't mean David and I don't still buy things for them. It depends on the thing and the money and our mood. It means, though, that they have their own money to offset the days when David or I are feeling like things are too tight to buy more things. It gives them power over things to choose. Just now Simon and I were discussing a purchase he made yesterday. He got Mario Galaxy but because I wasn't sure how much money he had, when we got home I discovered that he had less money than the ticket price. I offered to cover the overspend, but he said he'd rather be in the hole to me for 2 weeks.
With candy, which seems a separate thing 'cause it's food, I try to buy enough candy when we go grocery shopping to cover them for a week (or more, really, candy disappears fairly slowly, depending on the candy and the season--I eat more chocolate in winter, nad the number of people sleeping over that week). If we are out and they want some I usually buy it, just as I would a sandwich or some french fries or a giant pretzel or whatever.
Schuyler
www.waynforth.blogspot.com
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I am curious what everyone does when their children ask for something
to be bought- say a toy, video game, book, candy, etc. Do you go ahead
and buy it? Do you give them a set amount of money each week to spend?
If they help out around the house without asking do they earn money
that way? Confused about how to handle this one.
Thanks!
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With candy, which seems a separate thing 'cause it's food, I try to buy enough candy when we go grocery shopping to cover them for a week (or more, really, candy disappears fairly slowly, depending on the candy and the season--I eat more chocolate in winter, nad the number of people sleeping over that week). If we are out and they want some I usually buy it, just as I would a sandwich or some french fries or a giant pretzel or whatever.
Schuyler
www.waynforth.blogspot.com
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I am curious what everyone does when their children ask for something
to be bought- say a toy, video game, book, candy, etc. Do you go ahead
and buy it? Do you give them a set amount of money each week to spend?
If they help out around the house without asking do they earn money
that way? Confused about how to handle this one.
Thanks!
Yahoo! Groups Links
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Mara
If it is at all in the budget, I buy it. If something
is really very expensive and I don't have it right
now, I tell them if it is important to them, then we
will try to acquire it at a later time, and if they
still want it then, I buy it. So, we have a LOT of
toys, and animals, and books and are starting to get
some video games as well - . Often times they don't
even ask, if I see something they might like ( a toy,
game book, food, whatever) I will buy it anyways.
They are truly living in abundance, and since they
know they can basically have whatever they want, they
often don't want anything, or what they desire is very
small. For example we have frequented the Lego store a
lot last summer, buying quite a good amount of sets.
Recently, my ds (6) wanted to go just to buy an
Emperor key chain.
One time at the library ds (3) liked one of the
dinosaurs so much he wanted to take it home. That not
being an option I offered to go to a toy store to look
for one just like it. He was also hungry, so we
decided together to go home, eat something, look
through his box of dinosaurs to see if he would still
like the other one, and if he feels a strong need to
go out and buy one, we will. Once home, he decided he
liked the ones he has and did not need to go out to
buy the other one.
Both boys are very generous with their toys and
things, they have no trouble sharing most of them and
have given things to friends as gifts.
To explain our frequent visits to the lego store in
the summer, I told an employee that we are doing Lego
camp at home. Had they gone to a summer camp somewhere
it probably would have cost even more -
Often times, when something was very expensive, I was
able to find it second hand, ebay, etc.
All the best,
Mara
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is really very expensive and I don't have it right
now, I tell them if it is important to them, then we
will try to acquire it at a later time, and if they
still want it then, I buy it. So, we have a LOT of
toys, and animals, and books and are starting to get
some video games as well - . Often times they don't
even ask, if I see something they might like ( a toy,
game book, food, whatever) I will buy it anyways.
They are truly living in abundance, and since they
know they can basically have whatever they want, they
often don't want anything, or what they desire is very
small. For example we have frequented the Lego store a
lot last summer, buying quite a good amount of sets.
Recently, my ds (6) wanted to go just to buy an
Emperor key chain.
One time at the library ds (3) liked one of the
dinosaurs so much he wanted to take it home. That not
being an option I offered to go to a toy store to look
for one just like it. He was also hungry, so we
decided together to go home, eat something, look
through his box of dinosaurs to see if he would still
like the other one, and if he feels a strong need to
go out and buy one, we will. Once home, he decided he
liked the ones he has and did not need to go out to
buy the other one.
Both boys are very generous with their toys and
things, they have no trouble sharing most of them and
have given things to friends as gifts.
To explain our frequent visits to the lego store in
the summer, I told an employee that we are doing Lego
camp at home. Had they gone to a summer camp somewhere
it probably would have cost even more -
Often times, when something was very expensive, I was
able to find it second hand, ebay, etc.
All the best,
Mara
--- pionerlife <pionerlife@...> wrote:
> I am curious what everyone does when their children____________________________________________________________________________________
> ask for something
> to be bought- say a toy, video game, book, candy,
> etc. Do you go ahead
> and buy it? Do you give them a set amount of money
> each week to spend?
> If they help out around the house without asking do
> they earn money
> that way? Confused about how to handle this one.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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