if he was smart enough to pull that off i would have no choice but to honor it.In that scenario, fdd, would you pay the overage? Am I being a jailhouse attorney when i interpret the "change" in your first post to be limited to $54?cn
so i set up this deal with my son ...
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
... and make a tighter contract the next time! I tip my hat. cn
Urca
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um, please dont tell me I dont understand about credit cards, money, etc. You have no idea what kind of life I had. Or my experiences with money. Watching my parents and all the things we kids had to go through because we had no money taught me alot. yeah they made sure we had the nessacities, but beyond that every holiday, every trip to the grocery store, every time we needed pe clothes or school clothes, we always struggled and worried.thats alota money in afghanistan.....54 frogskins doesnt go real far. He doesnt know what kinda man his son is yet, becuase his son is is not a man yet.....and even still 54 bucks is a cheap price to teach a kid about money. Most kids asume credit cards are like gift cards. You dont understand this becuse yur stil a kid....please dotn take that as a reason to breed, one of you is enuf.
Dizzle out
So yes, 54 bucks is alot to me, and its a stupid way to teach fiscal responsibility
Urca
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please tell me at least you see my point?if he was smart enough to pull that off i would have no choice but to honor it.
Dizzle Frost
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We all understand what kinda life you had, its in about 2300 of your posts lol. and 54 is still not alota money...jus sayin
mysunnyboy
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you're being kinda dense on the subject kid. you want him to see your point but you can't see his and it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Dizzle Frost
Well-Known Member
Its not easy growin up with fuckall, i know this from my own life. My dad was never around and i had to learn shit the hard way...i learned how to fight from my dad locking me outa the house when i was 7 and a pack of kids wanted to kick my ass, he said hed open the door when i was finished win or lose. Money was the same way.....so knowing this why would you wnat your own kids to know and respect the almighty greenback the right way? Or jus continue the viscious cycle of having nothing and bieng worried about it. You basicly wanna teach your kids to penny pinch and never have the opertunity to have nice gear cuz thier always worried about spending it. If they understand budgeting and not spending like a fool, it will only benefit them in adult life, its called repsonsibility.
Stride
Active Member
Makes no sense to YOU only. Everybody else in this thread knows whats going on.
Why must there be a negative outcome to learn a lesson. Why is it that one must be fucked over in order to learn a lesson?
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
There is a spectrum of outcomes from "spent it all; get nothing matched" to "brought more home than he took with him; made a tidy pile". Where to place the neutral inflection on that continuum, where outcomes below that point are counted as negative, is ... subjective. cn
Urca
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being fucked over is a part of life. giving him 54 and saying ill match whatever you dont spend isnt really a lasting lesson.
giving him 54 and saying "make it last, spend it on the important things"
most kids will blow that money in a week on stupid things.
when he has no money left to spend, he realizes he should have spent it on important things or should have saved it
i already have learned this several times over. Shit there have been times where I was given 20 bucks and I saved it for over a month, until I chose to spend it on whatever. If I spent it in the first week, I wouldnt have been able to get what I wanted a month later
Dizzle Frost
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did you read anything Fdd actualy wrote? 54 bux, he has to cover movies, food and shit. How much loot do actually think is gonna be left? He told him to buy soemthng nice if he saw it..so he has no choice than to understand 54 bux dont go far...or he saves it and gets it matched when he gets back to base. Either way he learns moneys value.
Not to be rude..but you sound exzactly like the ghetto chicks from the projects i used ot live in, and thier daugters were the same way...and i bet so are thier daughters....WHY? cuz they never teach them anything about money , just that they never have any. Its no way to learn
Beansly
RIU Bulldog
Not to mention the fact that you get to find out earlt hoe your kid handles money. It's like a social experiment with you kid. And what good are kids if you can't experiment on them?
And now this
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mysunnyboy
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and your parents raised you the one and only right way? i don't know you so i can't attack you but you are coming off as prickish to just about everyone here. it's hard to always come up with new ways to teach kids, especially about money. would a lemonade stand teach him more about money? is that more conventional? cripes when you have a 16 year old think about this discussion would ya
Urca
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how do I sound ghetto? just curious
Urca
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im really not trying to be a prick, im just trying to tell you how I see it.and your parents raised you the one and only right way? i don't know you so i can't attack you but you are coming off as prickish to just about everyone here. it's hard to always come up with new ways to teach kids, especially about money. would a lemonade stand teach him more about money? is that more conventional? cripes when you have a 16 year old think about this discussion would ya