Louise McSharry
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However, not this traumatically.
$500.
$500.
Honestly, though, like it just made me think about all of the people who co-parent with people who they're not maybe aligned with on these things and how difficult that must be.
I actually heard a story recently of a parent giving their kid an iPhone when they were, I want to say six, and without discussing it with the other parent.
And I was like, I would be murderous.
Like, I would be murderous.
Exactly.
Well, apparently, I heard this story secondhand.
So, like, I don't actually know who these people were.
But I think basically what happened was it was confiscated via bad behavior.
And then that was just it.
But I'm sure that there was war over that between the two parents.
Oh, 100%.
But yeah, like it just puts, it puts the other parent in such a difficult position.
It's such an unrealistic expectation.
And like the one thing that you should be, if you can, in any way as parents aligned on is, you know, what kind of value you place on things for your children.
Yeah, and the fact that $500 is something that many people would have to work several days to earn.
For some people, yeah, 100%.
yeah I don't know I find that whole like it's my money I've worked hard I can do what I want and like you know I want her to have what I didn't have that kind of line of thinking I don't know I really struggle with that yeah because it completely disregards your responsibility to teach your child how to be like a good member of society yeah no I know it's like you can you can absolutely like you can you can indulge your child I say this with no children but