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Very weird that three plusas have twins.
Bxgrl, I think it’s interesting that these suburban moms and girls would CHARTER A BUS to come to NYC and spend their whole time in the city at the American Girl store. And we were talking about American Girl dolls and all their accoutrements.
“This is exactly the opposite of my world view.”
Why? Do you not think you have a responsibility to take care of the basic needs of the humans that you decided to create?
Back in the day my twin and I each got $3-5/week to clean the house and cook the weekday dinners. In winter shoveled snow and in fall raked the leaves. Lots of kids in hood so there wasn’t much money to be made shovelling for neighbors.
“This is exactly the opposite of my world view.”
So if your kids refused to do chores you would starve them?
I used to get a dime (Popsicles were a nickel, Good Humors a dime & comic books a dime) & then it rose to a quarter in fifth grade. We could earn extra & our grandfather was great at finding tasks for us. I had to save up half for big presents – stilts, pogo stick, telescope.
I shoveled the driveway and my brother shoveled the sidewalk.
Not telling you to pretend, rf. Just to not make an issue out of it.
MM, every day my dad would empty out his pockets and put away the change. Every Friday he would take out the tin cigar box and give one or the other of us the honor of counting the change. Eventually it all went into our savigns accounts. I remember it being a lot of fun. Still do to this day.
Lech, I see your point. Maybe you can use a word other than “allowance”. However, they’re kids, for goodness sakes. It’s not like we can send them out to work to make money themselves. If I would, I could! 🙂
So they get a little bit of money to spend however they want each week. I think the lessons they learn about saving and deciding how to ration the money are invaluable and if they’re spoiled, it isn’t from that miniscule weekly stipend. Further, we do associate the allowance into things they do around the house and with good behaviour. Maybe it’s Pavlovian to some, but if it helps them learn manners, so be it.