My Son And His Allowance, Well The Lack Of It

I try to give my 12 year old son an allowance but he never seems to want to do his chores. LOL..what kid wants chores? I always find myself reminding him that he always wants to buy things and without money, it is pretty hard thing to do, but at the same time I want him to save his money for something special that he wants.

There are a couple of options out there. I could open him a savings account. Never to early to learn about banking. There is also this prepaid Visa card called PAYjr Visa Buxx card which is available for children 13 year old and up. This card allows your load your child's allowance onto a prepaid Visa. Chores are kept track of by using the Chore and Allowance Management System. This system is available to children 12 and under as well. Will this be the answer to my dilemma? I don't really know, but I think I am willing to give it a shot.

WHAT A WEEK!!!

WOW…were to start?!?!.....I have had one hell of a week. First time I have stopped to take the time to write anything….Let’s see


Tuesday: I get a call from school, my son found a cell phone and instead of turning it in, he took it home. Ok I can deal with that no problemo, well what is worse is he makes the phone his own. He deleted all the stuff AND added his own numbers, made a few calls and downloaded some stuff. It kills me to think that he knew this was wrong yet he chose to do it!!!

Wednesday: I get a call from school, he has been suspended for 3 days! He deserves it that is for sure. Def not what I wanted to hear, that’s for sure. So now he is in huge trouble at home!! I go home and decided that I needed to do a room sweep. Never found anything else BUT did discover that he was smoking….geez…what am I gunna do now? I started to smoke when I was his age (12) so I know I can’t scream and yell, especially consider in I still smoke 19 years later..

Thursday: Not so bad…been working ½ days due to Zachary’s suspension. I kinda like it actually!!

Friday: All is well, crazy days at work due to being on ½ days but it is manageable. Well Friday night was a little less to be desired. My husband who drinks a lot,(he is an alcoholic, knows it and of course does nothing but talk about how he wants to do something about it) and can act like an asshole went on one of his rants till about 2 am.

I will touch on each one of these another time...big punishments for my son and some equally big consequences for my husband are coming.