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School Pocket Money
8 CommentsI always wonder how much you give your children for school pocket money. For me, I gave them RM5 at the beginning of the year and they didn’t spend any. It is still in their school wallet. I asked them to use it for emergency. Usually they bring snacks from home for their recess time to eat. The canteen doesn’t serve good and healthy food any way.
Imagine, my boy hasn’t used any pocket money for past 3 years in school. As for Emily, I am starting to see her getting stuff from the book shop. One day I went to their school, I saw Emily carrying 2 new rulers and she turned around, she saw me.
Me: Are you spending money at the bookstore?
Emily: Yeah I got 2 angry birds rulers? One for me and one for kor kor (aka brother).
I was about to give her a lecture but the thought of her getting her brother a ruler is so sweet. Anyway I did give her a small lecture on wasting money at the book store. I hope she will never do it again unless it is buying exercise books.
Published on July 24, 2011 · Filed under: Parenting;
8 Responses to “School Pocket Money”
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chanelwong said on July 25th, 2011 at 9:59 am
so sweet of her…
Jeriel also initially bought somethings from bookstore and said it was for his MeiMei…
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Rose said on July 27th, 2011 at 11:00 am
I remember when I was in primary school my parents gave me RM1 as pocket money and I seldom finish spending it. When in secondary school I seldom ask for pocket money because I pack my snack from home and never like the canteen’s food. I wonder how much I would give to my children when they go to primary and secondary school. Hmm…..
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Kit said on July 28th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
RM5 a day? I thought of starting my boy on an allowance too since he’s always bugging me to buy toys, candy etc when I bring him out. And he says I always have money because my wallet has money :S
Kids are so tempted by things nowadays, I think it’s good to help him start budgeting. But how much for a kindy kid? RM0.50 per day? That’s my pocket money when I was in Std 1. LOL
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michelle said on July 28th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Kit: More like $5 a year…hehehe. Kindy, I never gave because no canteen and teacher advise parents not to allow kindy kids to bring money to school for safety reasons.
Btw, RM0.50 can hardly buy anything. Drinks already RM1 above.
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You disabled the comment in your older posts is it? Tim is so “guai” – never spent a single cent for three years? You’ve brought them up really well. I can just imagine my girl spending her pocket money on useless stuff.
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michelle said on August 3rd, 2011 at 12:57 am
a-moms-diary: Yeah I disable the comment for past post because lot of spams, lazy to delete them.
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Loh said on August 4th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Hi,
Just read that you do balloon sculpture. Am looking for someone to do balloon sculpture for our charity carnival. If you are keen to do so, please reply. Sorry to reply in this column, as I can’t put it in your older post.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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chinnee said on August 6th, 2011 at 8:26 am
i am giving 80sen and all these while it was ok because qiqi used them to buy food. Recently she develops the habit of spending on rubbers and she bought 4 yesterday, one for herself, 3 for her friends…. 🙁
