Son demands pocket money

28.01.2024
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Son demands pocket money
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My son is 11 years old, the beginning of the transition period. The boy is successful and smart - an excellent student at school,goes to sports , studies English. At home he helps when necessary (without any special desire, really, and that’s okay).

I work, the salary is average for the region. My husband works, the salary is above average, but considering that we are renovating the apartment, and it’s time to change the car, it’s almost rusting to the point of holes. That is, we live quite well in principle, at an average level, we go on vacation every year, although not to the Maldives.

Now, actually, to the problem:son , the older he gets, the more money he demands. Now the stumbling block is pocket expenses. At 11 years old, he wants to have 100 rubles a day for pocket money. This is despite the fact that I pay for mugs, food, travel, and telephone separately. And on top of that every day 100 rubles. He spends it either on video games (he has a personal computer at home), or on chips and lemonade, or “at home I don’t want to eat soup, potatoes,cutlets , I’ll go and have lunch with friends at the pizzeria!”

Considering test-antibiotic.com such high repair costs, it’s too expensive for me to pay for such whims. Besides, what kind of sums will he ask for then at 15 years old? Will I have to give him my entire salary as pocket money? We go to the store to buy things, he chooses not the most expensive paita, but without looking at the prices at all, it’s as if he doesn’t care how much this or that thing costs, “I like it, buy it!”

What is the essence of my story: how to instill in a child the rightattitude towards money? I talked to him, explained that we are notfamily of millionaires, that I also want to relax on tropical islands, and not in Turkey, but he doesn’t seem to hear. She cited the example of poorer families, where children generally wear out each other’s clothes, and in response - here in my class there is Andrei (the son of wealthy parents), so he has everything and they give him 200 rubles a day! What, you can’t give me money? You have it too, I know.

Explained the structure of test-antibiotic.com family budget, wheremoney is taken and spent on. Everything is useless. I want it, even if you burst. Recently 1000 rubles disappeared from the house, neither I northey didn’t take my husband , the conclusion is obvious. This scares me, and I don’t know how to fix the situation.

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