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Do You Ask Your Offspring For 'board' If They Are Working And Living At Home?
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We always have with ours but it seems that more and more parents these days don't ask their kids for anything for upkeep even if they are on a good wage. How will they learn the value of anything if they are allowed to live for free? What do others think?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I have no known offspring but if I had then as they reach adulthood and become employed they would be due to contribute something to the household kitty whilst they opted to stay. As you say, they won't develop the necessary life skills without being introduced to them, and it'll be a heck of a shock if they move out and have to cope all at once.
I agree, grown-up kids tend to have it easy now. It's part of that "helicopter parenting" thing where parents oversee everything to do with their kids' lives and make sure they want for nothing from cradle to eventually flying the nest and beyond. I have to admit I'm guilty of that myself to some extent. I did try to rein it in when I realised what I was doing wasn't helping him overall.
If mine wants to come back after uni, I will ask for board. I think parents should, even if they can afford to feed and house them.
If mine wants to come back after uni, I will ask for board. I think parents should, even if they can afford to feed and house them.
My daughters presence at home was quite sporadic from the age of 17 or so. First she was mostly with a BF,then it was uni. During her breaks when she did come home, she was working and putting aside money for traveling...(or paying off credit cards). And,if she wasn't home...she was traveling. Consequently,I never really asked her for a regular contribution...though she often bought food for the two of us.
We have had this question a few times before. My answer: if they expect the same as they had when they were at school - food, laundry, lifts, their rooms cleaned - they pay two thirds of their pay-packet. ( before deductions for transport, etc) . If they get only the bed and the roof over their heads, and organise their own clothes, food, laundry, etc, they pay one-third.
But that doesn't stop the parents secretly setting up a resettlement fund with these contributions, to be handed over as a pleasant surprise when the offspring leave the nest for good.
But that doesn't stop the parents secretly setting up a resettlement fund with these contributions, to be handed over as a pleasant surprise when the offspring leave the nest for good.
My daughter was in rented accomadation untill recently , when the landlord decided that he was getting rid of the property .
We told her to come back home , rather than going into another rented accomodation ; give us some keep and save the rest of her money she would have used for renting ,to save for the deposit on a property
We told her to come back home , rather than going into another rented accomodation ; give us some keep and save the rest of her money she would have used for renting ,to save for the deposit on a property
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