http://longislandchick.com/put-your-money-where-your-mouth-monetary-penalties-as-discipline/ Life on Long Island with a Family Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:35:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.24 http://longislandchick.com/put-your-money-where-your-mouth-monetary-penalties-as-discipline/#comment-36 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:41:23 +0000 http://longislandchick.com/?p=8087#comment-36  @JenniferGrantScarduzio  Kathleen Scanlon-Desio  Yeah an allowance or, for older children, those with a part-time job, would seem to be necessary first. It just drives me crazy that my kids have no concept that things they do end up costing money – like having to drive up to school when they can take the bus home.  Do you remember the story of the woman who sold her son’s toys on Ebay after he broke the soap dish in the bathtub?

]]> http://longislandchick.com/put-your-money-where-your-mouth-monetary-penalties-as-discipline/#comment-35 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:31:47 +0000 http://longislandchick.com/?p=8087#comment-35  Kathleen Scanlon-Desio  I will have to agree.  I think we should charge them.  I know my boys earn time on the Xbox, so why not charge them money, but, i guess they first need to earn an allowance before i take away the money. 

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