Comments on: Seven Ways to Teach Your Children Generosity http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: James http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-266446 James Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:55:49 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-266446 @busymommy: Let me guess -- you're despondent about Cheney '08 not working out. Nothing else could explain such a mean-spirited, greedy, and short-term mindset. I could explain the work my daughter's school is doing to help kids in Ghana, but you'd probably shrug it off due to their cable TV habits. Or the work my wife does with a shelter for battered women -- surely they could manage their money better and all would be fine. Every man for himself? No thanks. Wishing you better karma than you're apparently giving the rest of us! xoxo @busymommy: Let me guess — you’re despondent about Cheney ‘08 not working out. Nothing else could explain such a mean-spirited, greedy, and short-term mindset.

I could explain the work my daughter’s school is doing to help kids in Ghana, but you’d probably shrug it off due to their cable TV habits. Or the work my wife does with a shelter for battered women — surely they could manage their money better and all would be fine.

Every man for himself? No thanks.

Wishing you better karma than you’re apparently giving the rest of us!

xoxo

]]> By: buzymommy http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265821 buzymommy Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:36:21 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265821 My parents always wanted me to be generous and always forced me to share. I hated it that time and even now I don't like to give anything to anybody. I work hard, I sacrifise so much to even be able to go to work, miss time with my kids and have to have somebody to watch them. And, honestly, I don't feel like sharing my hardearned money with somebody who is lazy or doesn't manage their money properly or doesn't succrifice cable tv or stuff like that to not to be broke. I don't want to force or even encorage my kids to share, because I don't want anybody to take advantage of them by crying how poor and disadvantaged they are. It' OK to help your immediate family and provide best you can for your kids, but charity, donations, I am sorry, I don't do that. I sell all my unneeded outgrown stuff on ebay or garage sale, and if there is anything left over I would donate it to a charity that would give me a decent receipt for my tax write-off, since I couldn't sell the stuff anyways. My parents always wanted me to be generous and always forced me to share. I hated it that time and even now I don’t like to give anything to anybody. I work hard, I sacrifise so much to even be able to go to work, miss time with my kids and have to have somebody to watch them. And, honestly, I don’t feel like sharing my hardearned money with somebody who is lazy or doesn’t manage their money properly or doesn’t succrifice cable tv or stuff like that to not to be broke. I don’t want to force or even encorage my kids to share, because I don’t want anybody to take advantage of them by crying how poor and disadvantaged they are. It’ OK to help your immediate family and provide best you can for your kids, but charity, donations, I am sorry, I don’t do that. I sell all my unneeded outgrown stuff on ebay or garage sale, and if there is anything left over I would donate it to a charity that would give me a decent receipt for my tax write-off, since I couldn’t sell the stuff anyways.

]]> By: marybeth http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265211 marybeth Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:22:55 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265211 Sorry Decon, those excuses don't pass mustard. Kids learn from their parents and if your kids aren't generous, it's because they weren't taught properly when growing up. It's not an exercise where you try a little and then give up and say it's their fault. It's a lifetime of showing by example. Sorry Decon, those excuses don’t pass mustard. Kids learn from their parents and if your kids aren’t generous, it’s because they weren’t taught properly when growing up. It’s not an exercise where you try a little and then give up and say it’s their fault. It’s a lifetime of showing by example.

]]> By: decon http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265174 decon Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:40:23 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265174 I know that my views are going to rile some people up, but forcing your kids to be generous can't be done. Some kids just aren't generous no matter how much you try. They have their own mind and if they don't want to be, they won't. Blaming parents because their kids don't happen to be generous is placing the blame in the wrong place. Sure, you should try, but there is no guarantee it's going to work. I know that my views are going to rile some people up, but forcing your kids to be generous can’t be done. Some kids just aren’t generous no matter how much you try. They have their own mind and if they don’t want to be, they won’t. Blaming parents because their kids don’t happen to be generous is placing the blame in the wrong place. Sure, you should try, but there is no guarantee it’s going to work.

]]> By: Moneymonk http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265161 Moneymonk Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:01:32 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265161 Good advice for both children and adults Good advice for both children and adults

]]> By: Ann http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265120 Ann Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:00:44 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/03/12/102061_seven-ways-to-teach-your-children-generosity.html#comment-265120 My daughter always wants to meet the kids wearing her old clothes that we donate. She gets so happy when she grows out of something she loves because someone else will love it, too. In that moment, she's somebody's angel, and it's really something to see. My daughter always wants to meet the kids wearing her old clothes that we donate. She gets so happy when she grows out of something she loves because someone else will love it, too. In that moment, she’s somebody’s angel, and it’s really something to see.

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