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Quite! The parents aren't doing 'em any favours though eh?

I remember hating my parents for making me pay 'keep'. I couldn't wait to get a place of my own. It wasn't until I did, that I realised just how easy I had it at home.

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LOL, No you didn't - care to share? :D

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Perhaps not in a public forum, but I dont think my 'activities' would have got me that long a custodial, and they were quite short lived ;)

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LOL This is kinda what we do, my sons has chores around the house to do, some are paid and some are not! i pay this money straight into his bank acct, he also has a small job with his cousin delivering leaflets which earns him some more, out of this he has to buy prezzies,entertainment etc: similar to yrs, i then give him a set amount i'm prepared to spend on clothes etc and if its anymore he has to cough up (doesn't stop him trying it on though, as unfortunatly he has some spoilt friends who don't do chores etc and get all that they ask for.)

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Ha ! another non-compliant bitch mom from hell, just lately i was thinking that i was the only one ! To be honest i don't care to much if my son does think i'm a cow, hopefully when hes older he'll thank me for it, i too would much rather know where he is and what hes doing, than be like alot of the boys that go to his school. (out all hours and into allsorts)

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Good For You

I was the same way with my kids who are now 19, 23 and 26 and they all turned out to be good kids they had curfews, jobs and god help them if they skipped school and got caught my son(the 26 year old) still remembers me going to school with him to ensure he was attending all of his classes in grade 11 when he got caught...lol

Kids do have the same demands here in Canada of their parents but the best thing for them is for Parents to learn and mean the word "NO"

Island Girl

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:D

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Yeah, my husband and I call them the moochers. If anything happened to his parents, his brothers would have no clue how to survive in the real world. I don't think either has ever been in a grocery store to buy more than a pop and snack food.

I find many more parents here in Canada let the kids stay at home for year past when they should. Seems really strange to me since in the US, especially the south where I am from, they kick the kids out when they finish school. I would consider still living with my parents after age 20 (maybe later if still in university) to be a massive failure.

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I don't know where the person lives who says that prom dresses - in Regina they are called Grad dresses - cost $2,500. I can absolutely assure you that here they do not cost that kind of money. My girlfriend is getting a grad dress made for her granddaughter (she doesn't have any parents alive incidentally) by a professional dressmaker and its costing her $150 plus the material, which is satin and does not cost $2,350!!

I cannot imagine anybody, even the yuppiest parents around, paying $2,500 for a grad dress, specially not a Grade 12 grad and so far as I can remember, girls did not have a university graduation dress. My son and his wife and everybody else wore those black gowns and the gowns did not even belong to them. I can't remember if they walked on the stage and got their diploma and then gave the gown to someone else, or if they rented them from somewhere.

I suppose maybe in Beverley Hills they might pay $2,500 for a grad dress, but certainly not around here.

My granddaughter is going to be 13 in July. She asked me if I could find some Airwalk runners and some other kind of runners, on eBay. She likes clothes but she never asks for particularly expensive stuff. I bought her clothes for Easter from places called Garage and Blue Notes. I think she got two pairs of jeans, a bikini, some capris and a couple of tops and it cost me $140.

However, she did tell me a while ago when we were discussing her playing soccer, that "nobody else's parents" forced them to play a sport. I said - well that is because your friends volunteer to play sports and so their parents don't have to force them! Soccer starts next week and she is playing!

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This shop is on the block here :

http://karenkellydesigns.ca/bio.htm

it says on the website that dresses start at $800 but, peering in the window, I never see anything anywhere near that cheap. It's a popular spot for picking up high school prom dresses and the sort of gown one needs each month if one attends Trinity or similar. Believe me this is nowhere near the high end of dress shops in Toronto, it's just a high street dress shop, and, really, shopping in Toronto is no one's idea of big spending. Several of my daughter's contemporaries regularly shopped in Paris, I imagine all the students at Branksome and the like import their clothes.

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I bet a few of the parents at my daughters high school will be doing just that! My son told me that one of the girls at his grad (same school) had a dress tailor made for her in Italy :eek: I'll bet that was more than $2,500 :rolleyes: If I was a millionaire, I probably wouldn't think twice about it myself; it's all relative.

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Isnt it amazing what you can do with some clever (and not so clever) editing ;)

Anyway Calgal can your son lend us a few bucks?

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LOL :D you cheeky sod! Hang on, I'll ask him.....

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He says sorry, but he's broke :p

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Got it all tied up in property, stocks and bonds hey??? Ah well, it was worth a try.