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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I make my daughter pay for it?

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Should I make my daughter pay for it?
My daughter never takes money out with her, so I end up buying her something, and insisting she repay. Yet once home I forget, she doesn't remind me it gets out of hand. We just bought a new hutch for the rabbit, the one she really liked was quite a lot but she insisted she would pay half, now she's in a strop due to me saying she is not having pocket money for weeks due to paying it off. Should I be lenient?
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You start to teach them the value of money early on and they will take that with them for the rest of forever; you never know she might learn to appreciate the fact she has worked and been rewarded too!! Imagine entering life with all those lessons firmly learnt. She'll be way ahead of the majority!:T
It doesn't get any better if you are 'lenient'.
My personal experience with 2 DD's is that you are just taken for granted and they don't develop a sense of the requirement to be able to pay for what thewy want/choose if you help them out all the time.
Don't do it.
I did and am now reaping the rewards of neither feeling any obligation to repay what they owe.
Besides I never got pocket money as a kid and I managed fine.
haven't you heard children learn what they live - if children live with fairness, they learn justice
Must remember to use it more, but every little helps