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DIDN'T THEY GIVE YOU ENOUGH ALREADY ?Feb 03 '00 Write an essay on this topic.You ungrateful little objectionable word. Student allowance? I cannot believe that is a subject on here. Advice for parents: DO NOT give your kid an allowance while he or she is at college. Why should you? The kid is out of the house, contributing nothing. so you ought to pay the kid more? What are you? your child's own personal welfare or unemployment office? Student allowances? That is crazy. Let me tell you parents, Part time jobs for students are simple to find. Big colleges have all sorts of jobs available on campus. Small colleges or colleges located near anything, always have stores or restaurants your child can work at. Don't for a minute think your kid is above working at a fast food joint. Unless, of course, you are a bad parent who gives your kid everything whenever they ask for it and never have the child learn how to go to work to earn money himself for something. Don't even think that at college your child doesn't have time to work either. You go to class maybe 4 hours a day. Somedays less. If you want your kid to be sitting around smoking weed, drinking 40s and wasting space then by all means, send money. (Don't believe me? Go read some of those reviews the kids from NYSU wrote on here before the site had to change the rules because they helped ruin it for us, you'll see.) IF you send money it is going to go to one place: the liquor store. Chances are great you are already spending almost as much as a new car costs every year to send junior to college, now he wants an allowance? Three words for both of you: JUST SAY NO, and for the child: GET A JOB If you are worried about Book Costs, and yes they are way over priced, tell your kid to try to get a job in the bookstore. If this isn't possible and you are going to pay for both the education, the room and board and the books, you my as well do this: When you move your kid into college, go with him or her that day to the bookstore and buy all the books that day. If more are needed later, tell the child to take advantage of one of the thousands of credit cards they are giving away everyday in the first few weeks of college, use that card for books only and have the address for the bill to be sent to your house. IF you see things like Harold's House of Booze and Malt Liquor Eporium, That is not a bookstore charge. A typical charge card bill used at a bookstore will look like: Barnes and Noble charge $750,000 I told you books were expensive. I say do go with your kids and buy their books for them. If you don't and your kid thinks, he can easily get money out of you in a round about way. Example, you give little Suzy the charge card for her books, she meets Joey in line at the bookstore and sees he has a pile of cash. Suzy says, Hey Joey, how about I put those on my credit card and you give me the cash for them? Next thing you know Suzy is having sex with Joey, and the only book they are buying is the Kama Sutra! Do you want that? I didn't think so. In sum: Allowance is bad, you're already going to pay close to or over one hundred thousand dollars for the 4 years the child will be in College. You want to give the kid spending money too? Get yourself a drug habit instead. That way you can really see that money get blown.  |
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