Charging kids board

What percentage of his salary are you asking for him to hand over?

I remember when I was that age i was paying rent and had no issues but my folks put it up thinking I had a big pay rise without realising they went from taking 30% of my wage to 60/70% over night making it impossible for me to visit my long distance GF.
 
I told my daughter (18) when she finishes college and gets a proper job then I will start charging her board. The verbal abuse I got off her was horrific. Then it turned into tears!! It was like I was asking her for blood! Kids these days are spoiled. We pay for her mobile every month, we just gave her £2.000 towards her car. Like others have said a couple of hundred quid a month for unlimited gas, and electricity, broadband, unlimited food and no up keeping of the house to worry about, is not much to ask really. She will get a rude awakening when she eventually gets a place of her own.
 
Takes me back - I started work at the Manchester Evening News as an editorial assistant on my 16th birthday and earned £40 a week in 1990.

I thought I was rich but then my mum said I was to start paying £15 a week keep.

I understood it, we needed the money in the house and made me feel grown up.

My folks only increased it to £100 a month when I was earning £60k a year before I was 21.

I just sent them on holidays to New York and stuff a couple times to not take the piss.

I won't take money off my own kids when it comes to it and can stay as long as they want.

Young people have it tough already and my two terrors have banked enough credit during this pandemic to keep every penny they earn in the coming years ahead.

If they want to send their mum and dad to New York in the future, however...
 
Pablo123 said:
So how much should you and do you charge them for the privilege . Stepson is an apprentice electrician and since he started work me and Mrs Pabs have charged him £60 p/m after new year he got a substantial rise, with this in mind his rent has now gone upto £200 p/m . We told him the good news tonight and he’s took it like there’s been a death in the family. For this he gets a nice comfy bed , hot meal served nightly, washing and ironing , internet ( his bedroom looks like showcase cinema ) , packed lunches and numerous other sundries plus he does jack shit round the house, are we being unreasonable to what we charge him
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He only earns £205 a month you sly ****.
 
Pablo123 said:
So how much should you and do you charge them for the privilege . Stepson is an apprentice electrician and since he started work me and Mrs Pabs have charged him £60 p/m after new year he got a substantial rise, with this in mind his rent has now gone upto £200 p/m . We told him the good news tonight and he’s took it like there’s been a death in the family. For this he gets a nice comfy bed , hot meal served nightly, washing and ironing , internet ( his bedroom looks like showcase cinema ) , packed lunches and numerous other sundries plus he does jack shit round the house, are we being unreasonable to what we charge him
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I paid £200 a month to my mum and dad since I was 18 until I left home.

Tell him he’s free to go and pay £1000 a month in rent and bills if he’s not happy about it.
 
johnnytapia said:
Could never charge my own kids a penny. No matter how much they earned. It’s their home not a hotel. Each to their own, just my thoughts.
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I dont think it's just about the actual monetary value though it's also about appreciating and understanding what they have at the time and preparing them for the big wide world when they fledge.....Nobody likes a moocher ;)
 
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