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[quote=Anonymous]Brokerage accounts: DH was worked with DS on how to analyze companies since DS was about 7 years old; he’s 12 now and knows how to sign into his brokerage accounts, calculate & trigger buy/sell orders. We review accounts ~ once per month.

Money: we have him go out to lunch on his own or shopping on his own and use his credit card for purchases. We’re overseas, so he needs to know how to deal with the currency prompts. He’s too young to have even a custodial account where we currently live, but will set that up when the time comes.

Cooking: DS makes basic simple dishes that he likes (pasta, omelettes, grilled meat).

Laundry: In the summers, we rotate laundry chores. During the school year, it’s too much work to deal with pressing school uniforms so I only have him seperate clothes by color.

Travel: last year, we had DS travel solo three times overseas. Once was with a school group, and the other two times as an unaccompanied minor, but with layovers, immigration and switching out cellphone chips. Hoping to have him start traveling fully unaccompanied by the time he’s 14 or so.

Navigating: he has to navigate (instead of me using google maps) when we drive places, and we have him run errands within 20 blocks or so of our house.

Homework: DS has adhd, so this has been slow. We still supervise a lot, but are gradually shifting more responsibility to him for organizing himself and getting his work done on time.[/quote]

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