problem child

[maxi1968]

what to do with a 13 year old who constantly asks for money.

[on_the_jazz]

Ask him what he wants to spend it on?

[khaz]

and make sure you go along to help them buy whatever it is they want to buy

[chroma]

force him to work for it.

Assign a list of jobs for him to do and pay the boy accordingly each week based on performance, then cut him off for a week.

This will teach him two important lessons, 1: you need to work for everything and 2: you need to maintain a budget.

two good lessons that will hold the boy up well as he becoms a man.
That way when he does become a man he doesnt get too big a slap in the face as the real world comes crashing down around him.

[firestorm]

sell him for medical experments so he can fund his own spending

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

no jokes here...im 14 and i can tell you your son uses money for fags at school, drugs(if you allow him to stay out alot) and thingz like shoes which cost lots and he keeps buying the latest stuff to be like his friends at school!

[mtv1]

kick him up the hiney m8 old fashioned love ? worked on me

[Lainie]

ditto to what chroma said.

my niece is 22 now. been working since she was 14 (local chippy) she wanted the usual stuff 14 yr old girls wanted but her mum told her money doesnt grow on trees etc and she would need to work for it. she has worked ever since (apart from coming back from tenerife recently but is now working again) and done jobs that although she didnt like she had to do it to get money. she has never really been a child to say gimme, gimme, gimme thank god and although she is an only one she isnt spoiled rotten. her mum was divorced when she was 8 and has always worked. never had a single day unemployment in her life thankfully.

[cork20]

i am 17 working for the last 3 years in local hotel its great to have your own cash , and help out at home , stig needs it for his vodka

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

i am 17 working for the last 3 years in local hotel its great to have your own cash , and help out at home , stig needs it for his vodka

you? help at home ? ... thought you were our newest PT

[marty29]

As already stated get them to get a job - My daughter got a paper-round about 2 yrears ago, earnt her own money....saved some and bought her own Ds, mobile phone etc.
She stopped doing the papers when she started her exams but continued to help out around the house for which we gave her "pocket money".
She has now finished her exams and waiting for September to go to college - She is looking for a part-time job once at college but wants to work full-time until then which she can't until August when she is 16.
I believe as others have said as she has had her own money she sees the value of it and it doesn't "grow on trees" and has to be earned.

[cork20]

kick him up the hiney m8 old fashioned love ? worked on me

yes mtv1 aka stig look at my hiney da

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

so your a bollock down cork?

[Mr Pumpy]

Is it the odd couple of quid they are asking for, or are we talking about summat a bit more, above a tenner say????

If its a bit more is there something going on???

If its just a couple of quid and all innocent then like the others have said youve got to make em aware that money doesnt grow on trees, it has to be earned.

[chroma]

i can fondly remember busting my hump at a local farm carrying feed for animals and shoveling muck and picking eggs out of the coups, chickens are nasty things when you wade in stealing their babies.
All when i was 9yrs old, all because i wanted a microscope out of New scientist i wound up loving that microscope more than anything else ive ever owned since. Best ?50 spent ever. Took me ages to get the funds.
My dad was really proud of me and my mom was raging when she found out i was working, 50 quid was an astronomical ammount of money to me, i could have bought millions of chelsea whoppers with that cash, so i was too scared to ask my parents.

PS: thats also the same year i vowed never to eat cheese ever again, theres some freaky stuff goes on in cheese when you really look at it under a scope.
i had a strange childhood when i look back now, i loved new scientist though, even articles i didnt understand. gave me something to aspire to.