my kids are aged from 5 to 13... but there is no way I will be paying money like that for my children as 'pocket money'...
My children have set chores that they have to do because they are a part f the family... these are things that I expect them to do... eg make bed, help perpare meals, clean up kitchen etc...
If they do the set chores they get $1 for each year of their age...
Then there are other JOBS... eg mowing the lawn... helping with the fencing... picking up the manure to put on the vegie garden... putting on a load of washing... finding the floor in the car by clearing out all the junk etc...
These jobs are worth between $2 and $20...
When my kids turn 12 they are given a prepaid phone by me (so I can contact then at their dad's) they then have to buy their own credit...
Take a long hard look...
our 'work' as parents is to raise our children to become independant adults...
What will happen when your daughter moves out - will she have her hand out all the time because you have not taught her the valuable lesson of budgeting...?
I wopuld have to agree with this... Women look, but they are not obvious unless they want to be...
Sometimes women can be put off by a man who is 'staring them down' in the street and it may just be too over familiar to look a woman in the eyes so obviously who is a stranger to you...?
Aren't the best relationships those which begin as friendships then lead on to better things from there?
I think that your lady has high morals...
My ex has been living with his lovely lady he met on a site (not this one), and my own children have been having great trouble in dealing with the fact that this new person is now a constant fixture in their life...
He refers to her as his "built in babysitter"...
My kids aren't sure what she is, as she is referred to as his partner, friend, best friend, girl friend, special friend, other half etc ...
Make it easy for her and take her away for a wonderfully romantic weekend...
I just got home from a "Girls Night In" to raise money for this worthy cause...
Sometimes we forget how many it actually affects... and only remember the 'famous' people, disregarding the hunge number of everyday people that are killed by this insideous disease...
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RE: child maintenance..what do u think about parents that dont pay it?
I am finding the percentages thing very interesting...My children all have the same father...
The total I receive for the five of them is almost the same in percent to the ammount that a friend gets for her two children to two different dads...
Now my ex's current 'woman' is having his baby...
My Child Support will go DOWN as he now will be responsible for that child as priority...
He sent them to school today in casual clothes saying that I never supply uniforms for the children...
I supplu uniforms, shoes, school bags, dental ($1300 last month)
as well as extra curricular activities...
I make sure that my kids don't miss out just because I am a single parent...
Their health and wellbeing and education comes first...
But...
without the Child support payments my life would be even more difficult trying to juggle things financially...