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How much to live on per week
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BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »
So you have concluded that you shouldn't give your student child "any money" just in case they spend it on cigarettes? Even if a parent knows for a fact they their children don't smoke? Even if the parent knows their child well enough to know they will spend the money on healthy food? What about paying for their gym membership? On what basis do you think parents shouldn't do that?
Seriously, do you even have any kids Dunroamin/ONW? or like PasturesNew are you childless?
Having spent most of my life in FE/HE I think I have a pretty wide knowledge of students and their lifestyles as well as hearing them talk about the difference between what they tell their parents and the actual truth.
I'm sure it's perfectly possible that your child is totally honest with you and leads a healthy life with no hidden vices but, if so, they're in the minority. They may well use the gym membership if you pay for it directly but a large number of students won't use extra funding to eat healthily but to buy more takeaways/ready meals and indulge in less than healthy occupations.
I also disagree with the idea that someone receiving £70+ a week on top of accommodation and bills is living in poverty as this is far more money than many young graduates will be living on after they graduate and plenty to pay for healthy food.
Backfromtheedge, have you actually been a student since your initial university years 30 (?) years ago? I have, which is why I'm less naive than you are..0 -
Having spent most of my life in FE/HE I think I have a pretty wide knowledge of students and their lifestyles as well as hearing them talk about the difference between what they tell their parents and the actual truth.
I'm sure it's perfectly possible that your child is totally honest with you and leads a healthy life with no hidden vices but, if so, they're in the minority. They may well use the gym membership if you pay for it directly but a large number of students won't use extra funding to eat healthily but to buy more takeaways/ready meals and indulge in less than healthy occupations.
So I guess you do believe that all young people are alcoholics and druggies that eat crap food ...... I don't know which Uni you went to but I'm guessing it wasn't one with any sporting facilities or you never spent any time using them?I also disagree with the idea that someone receiving £70+ a week on top of accommodation and bills is living in poverty as this is far more money than many young graduates will be living on after they graduate and plenty to pay for healthy food.
I never said that.Backfromtheedge, have you actually been a student since your initial university years 30 (?) years ago?
It's 20 years since I was at Uni. And no I didn't mix with the P!!! heads. Who would?I have, which is why I'm less naive than you are..
You are not less naive - you are just a cynic.....
....and you don't have any kids....A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Savings For Kids 1st Jan 2019 £16,112
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mrs_motivated wrote: »Depends which uni he goes to and what he is studying - lots of uni's frown on part time working (Oxbridge uni's - part time working is a no no).
Personally I cant see why there is a problem with a part time job as long as it is sensible hours. My daughter, was working part time at a hotel prior to going to uni - they have agreed she can work in her holidays and when they have large functions on at a weekend. So term time she only works the odd weekend and she is sorted for the holidays. I think this is ideal, of course i realise she is lucky to have this option.
Not sure where he is going yet but not Oxbridge. He is currently working 7.5 hours per week for Tesco and that brings him in £200 per month. I am hoping there will be a Tesco local to him that he can transfer to. He also works for a local ice cream company who will be happy to have him back during holidays.£2.00 Savers Club = £34.00 So Far
+ however may £2 coins I have saved in my Terramundi since 2000.
Terramundi weighs 8lb 5oz0 -
The more you give your children it's likely the more they will spend.
My daughter has found her first couple of food shops to be expensive - about forty pounds- but that is because she has had to stock up on things.
She certainly wants to cut that back.
She told me she is finding budgeting a bit of a struggle - she didn't realise real life was so hard - I told her I've been doing it since I was seventeen - she's a clever girl - she'll soon learn!Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
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rubytuesday wrote: »The more you give your children it's likely the more they will spend.
Oh yes, they might just spend it on....oh wait....healthy food. (Which your daughter might just have discovered she can't afford?)A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Savings For Kids 1st Jan 2019 £16,112
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Does your daughter get a full student loan? A full student maintenance grant?rubytuesday wrote: »The more you give your children it's likely the more they will spend.
My daughter has found her first couple of food shops to be expensive - about forty pounds- but that is because she has had to stock up on things.
She certainly wants to cut that back.
She told me she is finding budgeting a bit of a struggle - she didn't realise real life was so hard - I told her I've been doing it since I was seventeen - she's a clever girl - she'll soon learn!
Students don't receive the same amount of loans and grants. Some parents have to give their children money to live on - that's the way the system works.
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wintersunshine wrote: »Does your daughter get a full student loan? A full student maintenance grant?
Students don't receive the same amount of loans and grants. Some parents have to give their children money to live on - that's the way the system works.
Are you suggesting that parents shouldn't do that?
Why on earth do you think I'm suggesting that?
It's just general nature that the more money one has available the more one will be inclined to spend.
I made no suggestions of how much should be given.
My daughter is trying to work out for herself a reasonable amount to spend on food and yes that is healthy food!
What is wrong with some of you?!
Talk about hostile!Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
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rubytuesday wrote: »Why on earth do you think I'm suggesting that?
It's just general nature that the more money one has available the more one will be inclined to spend.
I made no suggestions of how much should be given.
My daughter is trying to work out for herself a reasonable amount to spend on food and yes that is healthy food!
What is wrong with some of you?!
Talk about hostile!
I wouldn't waste your breath - these parents of perfect children live in a world of their own.0 -
May be try working backwards with regards what you are going to give your children to live on?
So think about how your children can create cheap healthy meals (it is possible) encourage them to look at threads on here.
My daughter made herself a chilli - some went in the freezer and the next day she made it into a shepherds pie which gave her two portions.
That is what your children should be doing - looking for cheap healthy recipes.
I am not in a great financial position to support my child much and she has been lucky to receive a scholarship.
But living healthily and cheaply is down to them.
Support them as much as you like.
Sorry Dunroamin wasted my breath! XHere dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
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rubytuesday wrote: »The more you give your children it's likely the more they will spend.wintersunshine wrote: »Does your daughter get a full student loan? A full student maintenance grant?
Students don't receive the same amount of loans and grants. Some parents have to give their children money to live on - that's the way the system works.
Are you suggesting that parents shouldn't do that?
You didn't answer the question. How much does your daughter get in student loans and maintenance grants?rubytuesday wrote: »What is wrong with some of you?!
Talk about hostile!
Some of our kids get hardly anything in the way of student loans and grants and we, as parents, are expected to contribute large amounts of money to their university expenses. This is despite the fact that we pay huge amounts of tax.
Yet posters whose kids get full loans and grants (and presumably pay very little tax) seem to think they can tell us that we are dumb to give our kids money......
so yes we're hostile! :cool:0
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