Nine years old and she’s allowing him to purchase things online! No way! Not at nine. Not until it’s their own money they’re spending

Oh my gosh. That is definitely one expensive lesson learned for both Mother & Son!

My card is linked to my teenagers account, however she comes and asks me before she makes any purchases.

OMG what! That is nuts.

That’s crazy. What a shock for the parents. Probably lucky it was limited to $1,000 A bit more supervision needed.

Sheesh what a shock, I suppose it was only (only!!!!) $1000, if her limit was quite a bit higher it could have been quite a bit worse.

Wow~ didnt know the 9 yo nowadays can do this. I dun even remember what I was doing when I’m 9.

Oh maaaaaan what a learning curve hey!

I know a primary school girl who was told to steal her Mum’s cigarettes and at the same time was threatened what would happen if she didn’t. She was very quiet all weekend where she is usually such a chatterbox. She was staying with us for the weekend. We were very close then but she wouldn’t tell me. Eventually her younger sister told us. We told her Dad about it when he came to pick the girls up. He was horrified and was going to speak to the School Principal. I didn’t hear the outcome as we didn’t see him or his wife for a few weeks. She stayed home to do washing she could easily have done during the week.

Thank heavens this wasn’t around when my kids were growing up – I’d have been bankrupted.

Hopefully her son has learned from it and at least he was honest about it not being an accident.

I am lucky my kids ask every time, for now at least!

Oh my lord how did it happen my daughter knows better

scary thing

No – I’m sure they got up to things I wouldn’t have liked but credit cards and online gambling wasn’t around in my day. However my son I found out later used to take a pack of my cigarettes and sell them to kids from his school – cost to him NIL cost per cig to others 10c and if they wanted more than one the second was 20c. He was very entrepreneurial and made quite a bit of money. So who knows what he would have done in this digital age.

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 05 Jun 2019 , 4:17 am

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  Lol, what a wee business man !

Good on her for taking responsibility

Lots of people pay money for games . The bad thing here is that she didn’t keep on eye on her son.

I know some adults who buy things using real cash to advance on app games. I honestly don’t get it..It’s a game not competition..So I can understand a child doing it.

OOPS! A very expensive lesson learnt I think! I hope he realises just how much Money that is, and does some chores or something to help pay it off!

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 04 Jun 2019 , 5:27 am

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  I imagine there will be a lot of chores!

It’s good that she’s not wholly blaming her son – but he did clearly know he was oing one thing wrong.