Children
Don’t get me wrong I love my children, you know there is a but coming right.
Yes, there is! we work hard every day to provide our home, food, pocket money, some small luxuries and a holiday every now and then. Not to forget university fees, vehicle licenses, computer parts and clothes.
By work hard I mean 5 days a week 8-12hours a day and on call every other waking hour, admittedly I’m only rung in dire emergencies as the team takes care of the rest of the out of hours calls.
One child complains bitterly that I don’t earn enough the other doesn’t care.
The I don’t care child has been working and now has enough money to live all be it very frugally in the apartment she shares with friends in the city. Are we worried? Of course, 200 a week is not much to live on when the rent is 130 well we don’t think so anyway she however is very happy to scrape through and come home every couple of weeks to eat us out of house and home. In some sense that makes us feel better at least we know she does not have malnutrition or scurvy. So, we heartily support the independence though I still have a small account that I boost on pay day just in case she needs anything.
The you don’t earn enough child wants money everyday for lunch and thinks that if he is at school we still need to feed him. Yes, we do however we are more inclined to packing a lunch full of goodness we have already purchased in the weekly shopping, this of course is utterly despicable according to the child what teenager in their right mind takes a packed lunch to school. Our standard reply is those who don’t complete chores for extra money!
How can two children raised in the same home with the same morals and standards be so different? I will never know! Maybe when we are old and grey we can return the favour and make demands on their time and money. I know exactly what we will receive from each the I don’t care child will offer us support and time, the I don’t have enough money child will have earned a fortune. We know some of that fortune will be spent on us, he will happily make us a packed lunch.