Secondary School Pocket Money

[carebear]

Way2GO:

alamak :faint: laio

If my son said this n meant it
I will kick him out of the house.

Sec 1 tis year.
no, i don't think he meant it in a negative sense.
I have always emphasized the need to have a will, so he casually mentioned it. Any way i told him not much property to give him. It would be better if he could work hard and support me in my old age.

[pinky]

Looking at how crazy the property prices are now, I think 10-20 years down the road, they will be beyond the reach of our children. So better

keep the house for our kids. Who knows they may have to live in Pulau
Ubin HDB flats next time :!:

[VitoRelax]

pinky:

Looking at how crazy the property prices are now, I think 10-20 years down the road, they will be beyond the reach of our children. So better

keep the house for our kids. Who knows they may have to live in Pulau
Ubin HDB flats next time :!:

Maybe it will be like Japan. i heard that you must have a kid in order to get a loan. Bcos the property prices are so high, the loan amount is also high, so the repayment period is long until not possible to repay in one's life time. So the repayment period pass down & continue to be paid by the kid !!

Not sure if the above is true or not ...

[xxjustakidxx]

westmom:

If the allowance is given weekly, does your kid bring the full or balance of allowance everyday? Or you expect her to split accordingly ...say $5 each day or put the full $30 or whatever in her pocket? Any risk of losing the money?

For me right, I use irregular amounts each day, so I get 35 dollars one shot.

[VitoRelax]

xxjustakidxx:

westmom:

If the allowance is given weekly, does your kid bring the full or balance of allowance everyday? Or you expect her to split accordingly ...say $5 each day or put the full $30 or whatever in her pocket? Any risk of losing the money?

For me right, I use irregular amounts each day, so I get 35 dollars one shot.

So like westmom's question, do you bring all the $35 to school every day or you split to whatever smaller amount you feel comfortable for that day ?

[carebear]

verykiasu2010:

carebear:

Looks like i kena ketok by my DS (Sec 1).

He gets $5 per day (excluding ez link card, stationery), $2 for every tuition session (he has tuition in eng, math and science).
That means he gets $31 per week.
He saves most of it!

Then my DD who is in P5 i have to give her $5 per day cos she agreed to do higher chinese, also $2 for every tuition session.

That's why now i have to pack food to work for lunch.

wah, how can monetise every thing one ?

I always tell my kids that their occupation is student.
So they say if they have to work harder, eg take higher chinese, or go for more tuition classes, they say must get more pay!

[lizawa]

verykiasu2010:

carebear:

Looks like i kena ketok by my DS (Sec 1).

He gets $5 per day (excluding ez link card, stationery), $2 for every tuition session (he has tuition in eng, math and science).
That means he gets $31 per week.
He saves most of it!

Then my DD who is in P5 i have to give her $5 per day cos she agreed to do higher chinese, also $2 for every tuition session.

That's why now i have to pack food to work for lunch.

wah, how can monetise every thing one ?

I have a friend, who wanted to encourage her daughter (who was in upper primary then) to read more books, told her daughter that for every story book that she finished, she would give her $10.

Her daughter told her \"Not interested\".

How long can we use $$ as a carrot ?

[lovejoypeacce]

VitoRelax:

xxjustakidxx:

[quote=\"westmom\"]If the allowance is given weekly, does your kid bring the full or balance of allowance everyday? Or you expect her to split accordingly ...say $5 each day or put the full $30 or whatever in her pocket? Any risk of losing the money?

For me right, I use irregular amounts each day, so I get 35 dollars one shot.

So like westmom's question, do you bring all the $35 to school every day or you split to whatever smaller amount you feel comfortable for that day ?[/quote]I let my dd decides whether she want to bring the whole amount to school. I usually give her the allowance every monday morning.

[hquek]

pinky:

Looking at how crazy the property prices are now, I think 10-20 years down the road, they will be beyond the reach of our children. So better

keep the house for our kids. Who knows they may have to live in Pulau
Ubin HDB flats next time :!:

no lah, by that time ubin also pricey (think sentosa). Probably they will be encouraged to move to our northern neighbours for affordable housing. Then can reunite with their aged parents who are staying at old age home there also.

[hquek]

millan:

We gv $5 per day just for food allowance. My brother gives his son $50 per week so we ask him to keep quiet..

Ummm, but cousins don't compare? Was thinking about maid theory (they tend to start comparing when they get together - that's when maids start asking for day offs, handphones, blah blah). :roll: