As we start this journey and implement these drastic changes in our thinking, we are trying to teach our kids along the way.
This has been a rude awakening for them. As they are used to begging for things at every store that we visit!
Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom...
Can I Get? Can I Have? Can I Go? Can You Buy?...(you get the picture!)
Our first adventure to Walmart was fun when our oldest was asking for the usual STUFF...nothing in particular just begging for anything and everything...My husband and I gently reminded him that if he didn't have the money in his pocket to buy what he wanted that he would just have to wait until he saved up enough. Obviously this went in one ear and out the other! BOYS!
Because when we walked to the other side of the store there was something else he had picked up & started begging AGAIN!
We, again, reminded him that we would NOT be buying anymore junk. And we are being intentional with our spending and it was not in our budget to frivolously buy (whatever he was wanting).
By the end of our shopping trip I think he was getting the idea that he wasn't going to get anything other than the necessities we had come for.
This has been a rude awakening for them. As they are used to begging for things at every store that we visit!
Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom...
Can I Get? Can I Have? Can I Go? Can You Buy?...(you get the picture!)
Our first adventure to Walmart was fun when our oldest was asking for the usual STUFF...nothing in particular just begging for anything and everything...My husband and I gently reminded him that if he didn't have the money in his pocket to buy what he wanted that he would just have to wait until he saved up enough. Obviously this went in one ear and out the other! BOYS!
Because when we walked to the other side of the store there was something else he had picked up & started begging AGAIN!
We, again, reminded him that we would NOT be buying anymore junk. And we are being intentional with our spending and it was not in our budget to frivolously buy (whatever he was wanting).
By the end of our shopping trip I think he was getting the idea that he wasn't going to get anything other than the necessities we had come for.
He decided on the way home that he was going to start saving up his money to buy himself a desk for his room.
BREAKTHROUGH!!
Ash & I encouraged him & told him that he could do some chores around the house to help raise the money he would need for his purchase. More on the kids progress later!!
BREAKTHROUGH!!
Ash & I encouraged him & told him that he could do some chores around the house to help raise the money he would need for his purchase. More on the kids progress later!!
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