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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I gave my son 500 a month but that included golfing, going to sporting events and concerts.

I don’t pay for Starbucks or alcohol, but I will pay for chipotle or Chick-fil-A twice a week.

Unlimited Ubers.[/quote]

That’s insane [/quote]

1 golf game is $100 and tickets to a concert or sport event with his girlfriend and dinner is $200. That’s 1 date a month. [/quote]

Hanging out at your house is free.  Or he can get a job and pay for his dates[/quote]

You’d rather my kid hang in our basement with his girlfriend than take her on a proper date at least once a month. Or catch a capitals game once a month with his friends? No wonder young men are such a mess now a days.

You think he should give up golfing?

You think he should quit coaching kids and being a special Olympics unified partner to “get a job”?

The whole question was for kids who can’t work right now due to school/sports/volunteering. It wasn’t for slackers hanging in mom’s basement.[/quote]
I’m 43 and I make 200k a year and a capitals game is a splurge for my and DH. It’s hundreds of dollars plus transportation or parking, plus food and drinks. That’s not a normal way for a 17 year old to hang out [/quote]

He’ll literally go to 1 this season.

It’s not 100’s if you sit in nosebleeds it’s a bit more than a movie.

He took his girlfriend to see the playoffs for women’s soccer and it was $40 /ticket if you sat in the end zones.

I think that’s a normal monthly date. $100 ish [/quote]

Maybe for rich people but most people do t have an extra $100 to blow on “a normal monthly date.” [/quote]

Well they are spending $25 on wings today and going to a movie over the holidays so they also can’t afford a caps game either.[/quote]

Unless he is paying himself, he can make food at home and watch Netflix [/quote]

How much does it cost to make food at home? It’s not free. And I’d be paying.

Y’all are fooling yourself if you think your kids are not spending $100 a month on Starbucks, soda, chipotle, etc,

I don’t believe for a second your kids never eat out, never go to the movies, don’t buy makeup or clothes or go out with friends and if they don’t that too bad.[/quote]

You are giving your kid $500 a month..[/quote]

We budget $500 sometimes it’s less.

I give him $100 for take out, that is chipotle 2x a week.

I give him $100-$200 to spend time with friends (which is normally golf 2x a month but could be golf 1x and a concert ).

I give him $100 to spend on his girlfriend.

I give him $100 for gas, parking, clothes, etc.

He also volunteers every weekend in the winter/spring and has been since he  was 11.

His money from his job usually runs out in December. Teens can’t get 40 hours a week.

Every other thread about teens is like why aren’t you people raising your sons to be a better?

I have a son who volunteers, has good friends, takes his girlfriend out on proper dates.

And everybody on this thread is saying he should be sitting in his basement making food or choosing hoops at the park.

GMAFB [/quote]

You are raising a spoiled, entitled son.  True story [/quote]

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