Because he’s not confident about how to pay for things, calculate and ask for the change, Joshua’s never wanted to bring pocket money to school before. I gave him RM2 a day a while back and told him that he could buy ice-cream or nuggets (whatever) in school but he always came home with exactly RM2 and handed it to me like it was dirty.
Today, I have him RM2 for school and told him the same thing. He could use the money to call me on the public phone, buy pencils or erasers, ice-cream, nuggets, etc in school. But he came home with RM1 left!
Joshua: I used my money today, mom
Mom: Really? What did you buy?
Joshua: Well, I didn’t really actually buy anything. I gave it to Gin*
Mom: Gin? The nice girl who has been giving you sweets and erasers and all that? Wow…..but why?
Joshua: She made me some springs.
Mom: SPRINGS????? What….kind of….springs?
Joshua: It’s really cool. She made it out of paper. I know how she made it and I will show you at home.
Mom: Show me what she did afterwards, ok?
Joshua: I can’t. She took it back.
Mom: Took it back? And did you get your RM1 back?
Joshua: Er….no.
Mom: ??????
I went into a short lecture about value of things and how we pay for it using money and when you part with your $$, you have to get something back of the same value…blah blah blah. Joshua slapped his head and said, “You mean, I have to get my money back from her now?”
I shook my head and told him to tell her the same thing I told her. If he wanted to spend her ice-cream, then it would be fine. But doing something like this is called cheating. Once you part with your money that way, you are the one who made the mistake, there’s no point in arguing with the other person.
Damn, how come other people’s daughter so damn….cunning, my son so damn blur wan ah??? But this girl is really sweet….she gave my son sweets in return for something I packed him for his break. She bought him an eraser from the bookstore in exchange for something I have no idea about.
Don’t panic! I have to meet this girl one day….She really knows how to make money lah!
cuz…I think your son not that blur as you might think…I think he is “putting out long string to catch big fish”….hehehehehe…u wait and see..
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Hope so lah…but from looking at him, you’d think he had no idea someone pulled a quick one on him. He was like….huh? Really? Mmm….sorry, mom.
You didn’t teach your son to be like you ah? Mummy the entrepreneur?
I tell you ah, my son is 20 now and in love and I think the girlfriend suck him (££ wise) kow kow. Not that my son has money so he’s using money he hasn’t got….you work that one out!
Of course as a mum, I ’sum thong’. Teach him also he doesn’t listen. Your son is still young, teach him now, Marsha…..please, please, please!!
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Yes, I need to lay the foundation right. Other people teach their daughters how to suck $$ from men, we must teach our sons how to counter that from early on.
Eh, twenty years old very hard to teach liao! You have to let him learn his own lesson lidat!
Hee hee….the way you say ’suck him’ and then putting the pound sign in…you’re not worried about THAT are you?
I email you liow!
there sure are a lot of street-smart kids in school.
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street smart???? I call that cheat. the other day, Josh told me that the same girl took another dollar from him!!! TNM, it’s time to see the principal and get back my RM2!!!
These days, the kids are all about money. No money, no talk. So good, but don’t worry lah, he’s still young, he’ll soon learn to watch his money with the girls LOL.
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You are absolutely right. Kids these days very money-minded wan. I know, hopefully he’s more mindful of his cash in the future