That'll teach them

Marcheline

Hi Ian Griffiths and pickles: go ahead and tell your kids to have babies. THEN see how depressed they get when they have to live a life on benefits: you can remember it was all your doing with your cracking advice there. If your children have any sense they'd ask you why if it was such a life of riley living off the state, how come you go out to work?!

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

pickles110564 wrote: »

The problem is that this is probably the wisest information that a devoted Dad should now hand to his daughters.
What has happened to our great country to allow this to becaome the best career path for the kids.

Well it is a career of sorts. Afterall, by the time she reaches 24 she'll be able to apply for a Right to Buy Discount on this property and let it out on a Buy to Let. Then, due to being homeless and having dependent children, she will be housed as a priority and all is well.

paulmx3

Marcheline wrote: »

If your children have any sense they'd ask you why if it was such a life of riley living off the state, how come you go out to work?!

seeing the lifestyle some manage to have on benefits i often wonder why i go to work myself......:rotfl:

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

Marcheline wrote: »

Hi Ian Griffiths and pickles: go ahead and tell your kids to have babies. THEN see how depressed they get when they have to live a life on benefits: you can remember it was all your doing with your cracking advice there. If your children have any sense they'd ask you why if it was such a life of riley living off the state, how come you go out to work?!

My bodily makeup doesn't allow for the bearing of children unfortunately.

Thrugelmir

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax wrote: »

Well it is a career of sorts. Afterall, by the time she reaches 24 she'll be able to apply for a Right to Buy Discount on this property and let it out on a Buy to Let. Then, due to being homeless and having dependent children, she will be housed as a priority and all is well.

Why not pay for IVF treatment, have 8 children at once and retire? Money from the press will come in handy to.

slipthru

Marcheline wrote: »

Hi OP, parents are (and always have been) responsible for teaching their kids about money, that is the job of a parent: to bring up a sane and sensible member of society, which includes financial responsibility. The fact we are in a recession doesn't come into it! The state should totally back off in my opinion: it's not the govt's job to parent children. Just the other day the DoH sent me a questionnaire trying to find out what I fed my daughter on a daily basis and if she watched tv etc: the govt should mind it's own business (perhaps if they weren't so concerned about our bad habits, they could have kept a closer eye on the bankers!)

While i agree that parents should teach there children and not the state. We seem to have a lot of useless parents out there who teach there absolutely nothing.

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

slipthru wrote: »

While i agree that parents should teach there children and not the state. We seem to have a lot of useless parents out there who teach there absolutely nothing.

I'm not having a go at you BUT?

lukekelly_2

Given how many parents don't understand compound interest, inflation, etc there is a role for schools in ensuring that people leave school with the tools needed to evaluate financial products and options. Although to some extent if people have a good basis in English, mathematics and logic then it's all relatively straightforward and all they need is pointing in the right direction and if they don't no quantity of teaching of specific subjects will help.

mewbie_2

lukekelly wrote: »

Given how many parents don't understand compound interest, inflation, etc there is a role for schools in ensuring that people leave school with the tools needed to evaluate financial products and options. Although to some extent if people have a good basis in English, mathematics and logic then it's all relatively straightforward and all they need is pointing in the right direction and if they don't no quantity of teaching of specific subjects will help.

I think you managed to argue both sides there in a single post. Who needs a forum? Respect.

Marcheline

Lukekelly, I agree with you: if schools were teaching their pupils correctly in the core subjects, there would be no need for extra tuition in 'finance'. However, schools nowdays are too busy to concentrate on maths, as they are tutoring kids in 'citizenship' lessons and the like.