i have no idea why you wouldn't even if its just a token amount.
Series 1 of this show was exccellent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgR3ZRr4zb0
Series 1 of this show was exccellent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgR3ZRr4zb0
dyna-ti":3te3ncv2 said:Work out an approximate cost of all monies spent bringing up said child to this stage. Include all the sundries like nappies, clothes, bedding,food but include all the little odd things like calpol,milton fluid.prams, pushchairs Make a very very long list then print it off with a total at the bottom.
Present it to child and ask them- 'Now, how much would you like to pay back this week??'
boxxer":2xoznitn said:My little un has cost me a packet and I'm only 9 months in! I try not to think about it as mrs b and myself are on reasonable wages and although we dont have mega disposable income we are comfortable
As for me, I never gave my folks anything - I left home at 17 and they helped with rent while I was at Uni (£180 per month bedsit affair) then as soon as I was out and in the real world they gave me a token amount each month which was to just make sure I was never going begging....
To this day (i'm 34), despite repeated attempts to make them stop they still give me something each month which for the last 18 months I scoop into a savings account for my daughter.
I know I cant repay them but they say it's fair as my younger brother lived at home till he was 25 paying nothing (he paid his first house deposit and a new car from his savings that were saved from his job)
As for my munchkin - once we have paid her through Uni she's on her own - if she wants to stay with us, wherever we are she'll be welcome to but I'll expect her to contribute something - even if its a token
daugs":9okcm6d9 said:not sure the argument that it worked (or didn't not work) for the previous generation means that it is best for the next. If earning enough then surely better some money back to the family rather than on beer, and maybe even if can't afford for some to go to uni, if older have contributed then the youngest may have a chance, is this fair, maybe not but if can't afford it then can't afford it and why would any family member begrudge another an opportunity even if didn't have it themselves.
ps I thought the idea was that all the money was borrowed for uni these days anyway so not immediate cash flow ??, it was a grant back in my day
Isaac_AG":1xfruw80 said:But I'm not sure about the idea that it teaches them to look after themselves, non of my family once in work, paid anything to my parents and we've all managed to find homes, look after ourselves, pay rent/mortgages and bills and eat reasonably well, without any real advice or charges at home.
Isaac_AG":36c719ri said:My 8 year old has decided he'd never go to Uni because he does not want to be lumbered with a student debt, and I've not even mentioned it to him, which is sad in a way because he's in the top of his class and might really benefit from university, maybe he'll follow his bro into the Marines
There will be a lot less people going from less well off backgrounds, it will return to being only for the chosen few.
Alison