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OMG! I actually agree with lech about the ‘allowance’ thing. I’d rather give kid $ for doing chores not just because they exist.
By Expert Textpert on January 5, 2011 2:04 PM
My biggest peeve is parents that over indulge their children with useless crap.
Too bad your parents felt the same way and didn’t at least send you to school.
Benson, maybe that’s because I grew up in a white suburb! The mostly white trash kind.
lechacal, you should have bought them each a snow shovel last week, sent them outside and told them to charge $20 for a typical sidewalk.
Lech, my son already grabs my other boob while feeding him. I’m so proud.
I’d rather deal with him eating a lot and shoes than all that frilly princess dresses and hair clips and glittery nail polish and make-up and pink Pink PINK.
My kid has very little possessions and I hope it stays that way. My biggest peeve is parents that over indulge their children with useless crap.
Rf basically hates white suburban people. They are either “white trash” or “extremely white”.
Any type of girl is my worst nightmare, Biff.
The Mrs and I are debating how to introduce the kids to money.
I don’t like the concept of an allowance. Just the word “allowance” makes it sounds like you’re getting something for nothing, like it’s a payment for breathing. I like payment for work. If they clean up the backyard they get a dollar, etc. My first job was collecting the eggs out of the chicken coop and cleaning out the chicken shit once a week. I got paid a dollar a week. I never had an “allowance.”
I’m pretty sure the Mrs thinks I’m some kind of half-crazed backwoods hick who insists on making things tough for my kids just to build character. Obviously she’s wrong about that.
My niece had an American Girl Doll. I hated it, she loved it. The horse really killed it for me. My white niece, btw.