Do you help support your graduate?

dragonmom
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:24:50 +0000

Our friends are shocked at Bullet and I because of the pitiance we give him for spending money. He gets only 200 a month from us. My opinion is your food is paid for, your school is paid for, your clothes are paid for, if you blow through 50 bucks a week in spending than you are just blowing through money for the sake of it.



Please don’t let my kids know that yours get an allowance. OTOH, when ours moved off-campus we continued to send the same $ as the mid-range R&B charge from the college, so that may be giving her lots of spending money…



In your 50’s you generally have more money than you will ever actually spend. So why not share it generously with your kids in their 20’s?



sorghum, you need to learn about savings, retirement, long-term care, etc before you decide that people in their 50’s have more money than they could ever need and can give it away (unless your culture includes children taking generous and venerable care of their elders for many decades).