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Re: Re: Random Thoughts
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This guy gets it. Take away the Ipad and cell phone and give them a push mower. Wanna buy your kid something they can use? Buy them tools and teach them how to use them. Wanna give them something, give them books to read to help them become better people in life. Wanna instill something in them? Instill hard work, determination and humility, by letting them struggle, letting them fail and letting them figure out how to win at whatever it is they are doing. Let them figure out that losing is part of life, could be a game, or a pet, or a place in a play. Everyone can't win all the time, but those that learn how to lose and grow from it, will prosper in life.ForMud said:If you don't start them young and stick with it I don't know if you could change them.
I have two daughters, when they were young I never gave them an allowance and only paid for what they needed, not what they wanted. They worked at a close by horse farm from the age of 8 for cash or riding lessons.
They did plenty of chores around the house.... Didn't pay them for that ether. In high school they raised 20+ goats while in the FFA... Plenty of times they were following me out the door at 5:00am to feed or break the ice in the water buckets before school.
As they got older if they asked for money, they always paid it back without being asked.
The one thing we did do for them is buy their first cars. Nothing fancy just good reliable transportation. Since then they both have traded up a couple of times and they both have new cars ( All on their dime )
About six months ago my oldest ( 22 ) Thanked me for doing what I did and the Independence it taught her.
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