Giving kids money

rosalie-lavender

triple_choc_chip wrote: »

My son, who is 15 is now spending days about town with friends. He 'buys' £2.50 of tesco vouchers from me that I turn into a £10 voucher for pizza express. Win / win situation. There's loads of other places on the tesco site like zizzi or prezzo but pizza express is where they usually go.

Thanks for posting that. I didn't know Tesco vouchers could be used for Zizzi's. They couldn't the last time I looked. My son loves Zizzi's food but we usually go to Pizza Express to use the Tesco points. Can go to Zizzi's now instead.

bylromarha

Tell him to sign up to Pinecone research, complete a few surveys and get luncheon vouchers he can use anytime he wants!

needing-help

Hi. Just wanted to say thanks for all the support and advice. Himself came in yesterday and presented me with a creme egg before scurrying off to his pit.:rotfl:

Tenyearstogo

If my fifteen year gives me enough warning (before I go shopping or preparing the meal) I give him the cash equivalent for the meal, if I know he'll be eating out.

That way he will have to pay for most of it so learns to budget but I give him what I would've spent on his meal.

heartbreak_star

needing-help wrote: »

Hi. Just wanted to say thanks for all the support and advice. Himself came in yesterday and presented me with a creme egg before scurrying off to his pit.:rotfl:

Awh bless him!

HBS x

DigForVictory

Fuelling a hungry 16 year old needs a paying job! I wouldn't give him money either, but I would give him my lunch, the fruit bowl & (offer) a jug of milk from the fridge.

It takes a very special kind of teen to realise that a walk to a supermarket will get him more food for his money - most lurch straight into the canteen. In part because of their peers & mostly because they're ravenous.

So you did the right thing, as us here & even your son realises!

notechno

Do you not give him any spends then, other than paying for his mobile?