WILL MY KIDS EVER LEAVE HOME?
Will my kids ever leave home? Surely I can’t be the only parent who asks this question? Okay,
I still have a 12-year-old but I know the 17-year-old has no plans whatsoever to move out of home in the next 10 years or so. The answer to this question, of course, comes down to how much of an effort you’ve put into their money skills. I strongly believe money lessons are learnt, not taught. Take the spending bender my son went on. Home alone, he took it upon himself to dabble in some virtual currency. Not cryptocurrency – I may have forgiven him if it had been that – but virtual currency within a game called Fortnite. Within a couple of hours he converted $150 worth of Xbox gift cards (real dollars) into V-Bucks. I’m not sure what the V stands for but given you use your V-Bucks to buy items that change the visual appearance of your character, I’d go along with what the
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