<p>My parents pay for my tuition, room&board, books, and generally buy any needed supplies and will always help me out in terms of buying something I need, but “fun/extra stuff” is left up to me. Some people I know have to buy their own books (sister included, but she went OOS for $30K a year, i’m IS for $10), but my parents are pretty lenient with mine. So I was wondering how many parents out there buy books/etc for their kids?</p>
<p>My D goes to a LAC with no finaid so we pay tuition, room/board and other school fees. She pays for books, fun/extra stuff. We pay for transportation back and forth.</p>
<p>no (ten characters) :)</p>
<p>We don’t pay for books.</p>
<p>We pay for books. Gotta have them. Movie off campus or spring break in Florida? - that’s their nickel.</p>
<p>Sons get a semester stipend for books and we pay the rest. Their money goes for expenses above and beyond books, room, and board. In other words, “entertainment”.</p>
<p>We pay for cheap books ordered on line, anything else is their cost.</p>
<p>My parents pay for room & board, part of tuition (FA covers the rest), and books. Everything else has to be paid for by the kids.</p>
<p>I pay for my own through surplus loan money I get back from my school. This year my parents are giving me, well, not really anything school related I suppose. They agreed to pay my insurance while I’m away since they don’t have to pay any tuition, but I still get to make car payments, buy gas, and pay for any “incidential expenses”.</p>
<p>We DO pay for books; we consider them part of the cost of education. We also pay tuition, R&B, travel, cell. The have to budget their own $ for ‘fun’.
Our kids are expected to take out Unsubsidized Stafford loans to help defray our costs AND there is an upfront agreement that they owe us all we have spent toward their degree if they discontinue their education. Grad school is on their own (or employer’s) dime.
So far 2 of 3 have finished undergrad and are in loan repayment.</p>
<p>Yes (10 chars)</p>
<p>Only purchased books first term. D pays for books.</p>
<p>No, they pay for their own books & spending money.</p>
<p>We pay for books. They’re part of the cost of education. I don’t want to tempt my kids to go without the books required for their courses in order to save money. Some students do this, and it’s a bad idea.</p>
<p>NO sons pay spending money and books. That is what summer jobs are for :)</p>
<p>No—she must be responsible for paying for something. Spending money and books are her responsibility. Besides the fact, is she pay this stuff herself, she’ll probably take use better judgement (not waste her own money, not lose her books, etc.)</p>
<p>I feel sorry for kids who have everything handed to them. I wonder what will happen when they become 20-somethings, get their own job. Will they still expect Mommy and Daddy to pay for their spending money, car insurance and gas money?</p>
<p>My son will be going to Caltech this fall with no financial aid. We are paying the tuition and fees ($33,000) plus airfare. He will pay for the R&B, books, and everything else. ($14,000) It does sound like a lot, but he has been working since 7th grade and has been saving!</p>
<p>S has to pay 10%. At his school that is about $2500-$3000/year. He also has to pay any extras–snacks, entertainment, clothes, phone–and if he wanted to come home more than Xmas and summer, he’d have to pay for his plane tickets. That’s the deal we made with our kid.</p>
<p>We pay for books, tuition, room and board, his cell phone and transportation home on holidays. He pays for any extra charges on that cell (he never has extra charges :)).
We do not provide him with a car and obviously do not have car insurance bills for him. His other expenses he pays for, but we have sent him a couple of small checks (not much).</p>
<p>Yes, we pay for books. We never considered otherwise. As others have said, books are part of the cost of education. We also cover tuition, room, and board (on campus eating plan). We also deposit a little each month into S’s on-campus student account to cover supplies and school-related expenses. We also cover airfare to and from school (in another state across the country).</p>
<p>S is responsible for spending money…off-campus dining, recreation, dates, clothes, etc.</p>