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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But, I'm pp, and I disagree that buying Taylor Swift tickets for your kids will teach them about value, which is the very point of this thread. So, why bother getting angry about occasional guac when you're going to shell out $1500 pp for concert tickets. [/quote]

Yeah, it does, but you don’t get it. All I can do is suggest you go back and reread prior responses. You’re probably the same person who believes kids don’t need this lesson bc they will learn it anyway by seeing prices on a menu. [/quote]

Im not the person you are talking to, but I’m the person who has kids who can read the extra charges on the menu.

I realized later in the thread that a lot of people are ordering chipotle to their homes, and the kids might not actually have access to see the prices.

Honestly, if I went to order Chipotle to the house, my kids would tell me they will make themselves a PB&J and ask for the cash I would have spent on them.    
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Have you ever had discussions with your kids about what things cost, what is a want/need or whether an expense is worth it, etc?[/quote]

Never!  If they say, “mom, Taylor swift tickets are $1500, isn’t that crazy?”  I always respond, “hush child, we do not speak of such things in this house.  Take your discussion of what things cost elsewhere!”  [/quote]

It sounds like a weird question but I think it originated because someone claims kids don't need to know about the cost of stuff or have discussions with parents about wants/needs because they can read a menu and see for themselves what things cost. They will figure it out on their own. [/quote]

That was me!  
And I still think it’s a weird question.  My kids DO need to know the cost of things, but they don’t need me to tell them what things cost when they can read it.  
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Yeah, I don’t agree. If a 12 year old can see that a smoothie is $10 on the menu, but mom always pays, always says yes, and doesn’t discuss it with kid, it could be $2 or $20 for the smoothie. Cost is irrelevant to the kid. Discussing or not discussing it, the dollar cost is still evident but the lesson is not. [/quote]

Honestly, I think my kids are just a lot more anxious than yours.  This really isn’t a “lesson” that I need to teach them.  They would never ask for a $20 smoothie, and if I was in some kind of situation where I wanted to spend $100 on smoothies for the family, I would have a lot of trouble convincing them to get it.

I mean, how do you tell an anxious kid “no” to $3 guacamole because it’s too expensive and then convince them that it’s fine to buy lunch at school if they forgot to pack one?  Or that you can absolutely afford to send them to summer camp and they don’t need to worry about it?

We make enough money, and I want my kids to know that they don’t have to be anxious about it or worry that we won’t have enough.

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