Teaching Kids the value of money

[Camel Toe]

So camel toe you would be more than happy for your kids to spend everything and live from day to day.Like many country folk do.

Ops, what we have here is a failure to communicate. I won't bother trying to paraphrase, bye, good luck.

[terry57]

You may want your kids to be come arty farty types and not give a toss about money
but at the end of the day they will have fuk all except a few painting whilst the kids educated in the importance of money will be well set up and further more will know how to make it and save it.

That's all I'm saying.

One must have money in this world to live a good life, educating ones kids in the importance of money will be the best thing you can do for them, then teach them to draw pretty pictures.

Oh yes, money ain't that important if one wants to live like a peasant in later life.

[terry57]

So camel toe you would be more than happy for your kids to spend everything and live from day to day.Like many country folk do.

There is a really great Quote. It goes like this.

Some silly fukers will argue that " Money can not make a person happy. "

The correct answer is this,

The tossers who say this " have never had any money".

Actually one will find that the people who have never had money will blow the lot on all sorts of shit where as the people who have earned their money will hold onto it and spend it on worth while things.

[Camel Toe]

Art and painting are the same thing? So then an art-type couldn't possibility be someone who studies or is dedicated to the arts (not to be confused with The Fine Arts)? That would include Language, History, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Film, Stage and a lot more. BA, MA, any idea what that A stands for? BS, MS, any idea what that S stands for?

[Fozzy]

I know plenty about living in Thailand but happily agree I know fuck all about living in bum fuck nowhere where your 11 year old kid can't own a quad bike for fear of the local kids stealing it.

Well fozzy,

Its not just about the local kids stealing it, its more about the local kids thinking that they have equal rights in riding the fuker.

Its the same as the Aboriginals in Australia, if one kid gets a bike it belongs to all.

That's O'k if its only a bike but add a motor and some serious speed and one is certain to have big problems.

Buy the kid a new push bike I reckon.

Fair points. There was a reason I honed in on that part of the OP. Just a few weeks back I decided to get my oldest (seven years old) his first crosser next Christmas. I've been looking at a lot of bikes recently deciding which one to get so it's something that's in the front of my mind and why I commented.

If the OP wanted his son to have quad but was worried about the local kids, he simply needs to take the bike a few miles out of the village and find somewhere decent to ride it, supervise him and get involved with his hobby. Thais love motocross, I bet a proper track is within travelling distance to wherever he lives.

Seems to me that it's the OP that would be put out by buying him the quad as he doesn't want to put in the small amount of time and effort to avoid any problems local kids would be. Piss poor reason IMO and after the ignorant way he introduced himself to me I don't have a problem telling him so.

[Yasojack]

same again you know fuck all about country life, and the amenities available such a shame you try to involve yourself in nothing you know about.

[Camel Toe]

involve yourself in nothing you know about.

Something you know nothing about?

Actually one will find that the people who have never had money will blow the lot on all sorts of shit where as the people who have earned their money will hold onto it and spend it on worth while things.

Actually we are not from the same milk. Now let me think ... a person with lots of money who only spent his money on worthwhile things. Can you define worthwhile? That wouldn't include charities, no doubt. Things like private golf club memberships? Sports cars? Danish furnishings? Real china? Electric carriage door openers? Pembroke University tuition? Private planes?

[terry57]

^

I mean things that could possibly appreciate in value such as the things you have mentioned.

I'm saying that people who have no appreciation of money blow it on shit mostly as they are not taught to save or have been educated in money matters.

A typical example is the life long welfare tossers in Australia who live all their miserable lives on welfare and blow the lot every week on Alcohol and cigarets.

[Yasojack]

Says the man from mexico your really local ain't you.

involve yourself in nothing you know about.

Something you know nothing about?

Actually one will find that the people who have never had money will blow the lot on all sorts of shit where as the people who have earned their money will hold onto it and spend it on worth while things.

Actually we are not from the same milk. Now let me think ... a person with lots of money who only spent his money on worthwhile things. Can you define worthwhile? That wouldn't include charities, no doubt. Things like private golf club memberships? Sports cars? Danish furnishings? Real china? Electric carriage door openers? Pembroke University tuition? Private planes?

[Rural Surin]

same again you know fuck all about country life, and the amenities available such a shame you try to involve yourself in nothing you know about.

Par for the course - TD pundits.

[Camel Toe]

Yes, I'm local.

No need to take a comment then stretch it to extremes, such as art-types being nothing more than failed painters.

I doubt it takes a parent to teach a child the value of money. Unless, of course, the child lives in a log cabin, has no neighbors, isn't allowed to read and is home-schooled. The day you let him out of the house to attend school is the day your teachings start to lose their stickem.

Really, not meant to insult, but if I were a child and I found out my father had to consult a public Internet forum for advice on my birthday party, I'd be worried.

I do believe a child can go three ways .. if he adores and respects his folks he will do anything and everything to please them, possibility for the rest of his/her life. If he learns, along the way, the morals his parents shoved down his throat were pure bullshit that would only work for a chump, you've lost him. Or, the third avenue is to take the best your parents offered and modify it to suit the times. That's what IMO most young people do.

The times: The great dilemma in parenting. We teach what we learned from the last generation or even the generation before that. We're preparing the kids for the future .. too bad we know fuckall about the future. Will our morals render survival skills in the year 2040?

One more rant. IMO if the child of a Thai/Anglo marriage is to live his/her life in Thailand it's better he be Thai than whatever you are.

[Yasojack]

To read your post here just really shows your unworthy of respect, reading your posts and how your making yourself out to be from the upper classes is so passe, that i'm sure your would fit right into the catergory of person that the majority of thais wish to be rid off

Art and painting are the same thing? So then an art-type couldn't possibility be someone who studies or is dedicated to the arts (not to be confused with The Fine Arts)? That would include Language, History, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Film, Stage and a lot more. BA, MA, any idea what that A stands for? BS, MS, any idea what that S stands for?

[Camel Toe]

Far from the upper class dude. I went to a mediocre uni on the GI Bill. So you're country? There's the difference. Logical innit .. in the city there's more to know, life is more complicated, language more refined, expression is everything. Has nothing to do with class, cause I really don't have any. Anything I do better than you is probably confined to vocabulary.

[Yasojack]

ye i just been looking at your threads there very intellectual enough said, just the usual tosser trying to be a smart arse.

get a life pal you never know you may find the camel toe to you've always lusted over.

I'm from the country nooooooo i am from the uni of life whereas you seem to think your refined.

you can usually tell your type by the time and effort you take to post shame really you have to try and be a prick

[Camel Toe]

ye i just been looking at your threads there very intellectual

Things to do with toothpicks? Yes, very intellectual. Don't take it personally, none of the ideas I posted on your topic were mine, they're all regurgitated stuff I learned in school, you know, child psychology lectures, books, and trash like that.

Remember it's YOU who came here looking for advice. You got it but it isn't what you wanted. Now you're winging. So sorry ...

[Yasojack]

not take it personal i actually feel sorry for your type, must be the GI mentality hey

[Camel Toe]

Oh sure, 40 years without any military contact just isn't enough. It's in my blood forever. I still have nightmares about our kitchen duty food fights. Once I was clobbered on the head with a flying chicken neck. That can have a lasting effect even an agent orange victim couldn't imagine.

[Yasojack]

[sounds about right

delusional thoughts of grandeur

QUOTE=Camel Toe;2789742]Oh sure, 40 years without any military contact just isn't enough. It's in my blood forever. I still have nightmares about our kitchen duty food fights. Once I was clobbered on the head with a flying chicken neck. That can have a lasting effect even an agent orange victim couldn't imagine.[/QUOTE]

[Camel Toe]

[sounds about right

delusional thoughts of grandeur

QUOTE=Camel Toe;2789742]Oh sure, 40 years without any military contact just isn't enough. It's in my blood forever. I still have nightmares about our kitchen duty food fights. Once I was clobbered on the head with a flying chicken neck. That can have a lasting effect even an agent orange victim couldn't imagine.

If you PM a mod I bet he/she could help you with how to quote .. nothing personal.

[Yasojack]

bet you if you contacted a shrink he/she could help you.