What do you do with your children?

@fchalida (196)
Indonesia
July 27, 2009 11:22am CST
I have 2 children, still little kids. i have a problem to handle my money. sometime they want some toys to buy. but i am not allow them to buy that toys, with "expensive toys" reason. sometime i fill sorry for that. i pay that reason with just bought the an ice cream, hang out the mall, waching movie in theatre. please help me, how do you do if that happen to you?
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4 responses
• India
27 Jul 09
well i dont have kids so i dont have any such kind of problem......i can only say that u should have management capability....only then u would be able to handle everything
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@busky5 (3164)
• Thailand
28 Jul 09
If i have a limited budget.I will tell the real story about my family status to my kid knows.I will give only the reward if they want to have the expensive toys.I will tell him to save his money include his reward to buy the expensive toys.
@fchalida (196)
• Indonesia
30 Jul 09
thanks for your suggestion. otherway, i already done what you tell me this. This week My kid is third's grade in his class, so i give him lego's cause he likes build something to become other thing.
• United States
27 Jul 09
some incomes do not allow expensive purchases at a whim this I do know. With my children when they were small and they would want something they saw in a store I would just explain to them that is something we can't afford. That we have to live within our means. To me this teaches children that you can't always get what you want. That it takes more than just wanting something to get it it.
@cassrufus (116)
• Philippines
28 Jul 09
I was never be a mother before but i quiet observe mother and child and father with his child too. simply explain to them about money tell them like this way "we need to save" and try to find other toy which is less. But i believe that children of yours will change their behavior and the ways they ask you expensive toys, this is other way so that they will not mind the toy they if u have extra try to surprise them with similar toys they wanted to have.