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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd is heading to middle school in the fall. Within a short walking distance of the school is a grocery store with a Starbucks inside. If I am ever there around the time school is letting out, I often see MS students buying snacks at the store or Starbucks drinks. Sometimes I see them there before school, too. If you have a middle schooler with access to food/drink like this, how do you manage what they spend? Do you give them allowance? Do they spend their own money? Are you worried about those sugar/caffeine bombs at Starbucks and do you advise them to not have them as much? I know 6th grade is the start of more independence and I want to do things right, but we don’t have a Starbucks budget for the adults in our family, let alone the kids. How do you handle this?[/quote] Our kids are in a similar situation. Starbucks cards for birthdays or other gift-giving occasions. And we set a monthly budget that we would put on a Starbucks card. This helped manage the sugar bombs, because iced tea is cheaper than one of those sugary drinks, but it also let the kids decide what they wanted and limited it to a reasonable amount. We found that first few months, it was all about Starbucks, to the point where they would give us saved allowance money and ask for more money on their cards. As time went on, they would go, hang out with friends, but often not buy anything. On the few occasions I was able to observe, I'd say probably half the kids bought something at any given time. We're not a Starbucks family, either. But decided that the grab for independence fit in with our goals to help them learn to manage spending. It's not easy, especially using plastic. Having to track how much money they had left, how much they could spend, how they could earn more money at home or in the neighborhood, it all turned out to be a good experience.[/quote]
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