Share a cuppa?

Lol.. you end up have to take the LONG way around just to avoid the shops @ArraDreaming

Yeah, it's so pricey. A cookie for $4 or something. It's good because my sister doesn't buy stuff for the kids so the kids don't ask. Only I buy stuff for them. But that's coz I don't have my own kids. If I did, I'd prob not buy them stuff either.

We are starting to teach our oldest about the value of money/earning things obvious not food because we wouldn’t make him work for a cookie from the bakery but like if we wants to buy something he has to have some money and or do a few chores for us around the house
like today he wanted to buy this thing he saw in a shop for $18, and he had $15 so he agreed that he would take the recycling out for me us tonight and tomorrow to make up the money.
honestly I could have paid the $3 but it’s the point of it @tyme

and the thing is he is stil only young so we aren’t going to go full on with it, like $3 to take a couple of milk cartons out to the bin is a very good deal, it’s more the idea of it @tyme

Wow @ArraDreaming ! That's a really good way of teaching financial maths.

Even a cookie I would want my kids to learn to earn. Only because they need to know the difference between NEEDS and WANTS. A cookie is a want, not a need.

My eldest niece was arguing with my sister today about all the money people have given them while being on this trip here in Syd. All my relos have given all the kids money. I'm sure they all have a few hundred each. So my niece is saying that it's her money so she should get to choose what she wants to spend it on.

One thing for my sister's girls is that they know how to reason, debate and argue.... the boy (my nephew) is always a bit stuck for words and we can't understand him lol. He mixes all this words around...

I think you mentioned your son mixes his words around too?

Lol... little kids need to start with little money!!! $3 is heaps lol!

I think my sis gives them $1 or 50c to empty the dishwasher lol @ArraDreaming For now they get cash and later they may get a spriggy card

today he asked Mrs jay5 how much the tooth fairy brings because he has a wobbly tooth and I overheard and said oh the tooth fairy stopped bringing money years ago She brings brocolli soup now And he lost it 😂😂😂
So mean but so funny


And yeah he is like me in that he has a thought In his head and is in such a hurry to get it out that he speaks too fast @tyme
Getting much better though

our middle kid is still in that learning sentences stage so he really doesnt make a lot of sense sometimes
like he will say like “play blocks mummy sick” and your like what do you mean and it will be that he was telling us that he was playing blocks one day and mum was sick that day or he has been saying for a while “daddy memo?” we still dont know what that means but hes been saying it for a while,
just the age but its funny
like the other day I was busting to get out for a walk and I had him just at home for a little bit and I asked him a few times if he wanted to go for a walk and he growled at me because he wanted to finish his pretzels and I was being annoying @tyme

He just walks around the house all day saying HECUBA 🤣
If you arent sure where he is just say Hecuba and he will repeat it back to you from somewhere

Lol. Too cute and too funny. I love the broccoli soup business. That's a gem! @ArraDreaming

My nephew is so so small. He's just into size 2 clothes now (and he's 6 years old!). That means, his mouth is small, and he's getting all these big teeth in there. He's already had a few orthodontic appointments to see how they can expand this jaw to get more teeth in. It's terrible. Currently, his mouth is full of baby teeth, but even then they are all mushed together!

The 3 year old here is so so so articulate. Very switched on and cluey too. Sits next to me and wants to work on my 'umputer'.

Kids are funny. And they get frustrated when you don't understand them and then they get even more frustrated when you ask them what they are saying... then they storm off. The girls here have no issues with language, only the boys lol. The boys are the very mathematical/engineerish type here. They don't talk much but they create circuits, calculate sums, order everything...

So strange how they just 'fall into' the social 'norms' here... Oh, but i have one niece who's a tomboy. So that's more balanced..

I didnt mean to have a gender convo here.... just turned out to be one when describing the kids.

Kids are so much fun and so interesting how they are all so different @tyme but I agree sometimes they do just fall into that our oldest does not like it when we put flowers on our baby…. says he doesnt like it and wants her to wear Minecraft clothes @tyme

Hahaha I agree how interesting are kids and they do sometimes just fall into it our oldest doesn’t like it when our baby wears flowers he says he doesn’t Like if and wants us to put Minecraft clothes on her @tyme